Note accompanying report on paper by G. B. Airy.
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The Sir John Herschel Collection
The preparation of the print Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, viii + 828 pp) which was funded by the National Science Foundation, took ten years. It was accomplished by a team of seventeen professors, visiting scholars, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and staff working at the University of Notre Dame.
The first online version of Calendar was created in 2009 by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy, working at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium, and it is that data that has now been reformatted for incorporation into Ɛpsilon.
Further information about Herschel, his correspondence, and the editorial method is available online here: http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/herschel/?p=intro
No texts of Herschel’s letters are currently available through Ɛpsilon.
Note accompanying report on paper by G. B. Airy.
Discusses printing of JH's catalogue of nebulae.
Sends R.S.L. Council's formal acknowledgement of star catalogue manuscript [see JH's 1863-12-4].
Responds to GS's letters of 1864-2-4 about procedures for printing JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae' and receipt of William Herschel's manuscripts .
Further about nebulae catalogue [see JH's 1864-2-5].
Asks JH to review 'magnetical' paper by Edward Sabine.
Agrees to review paper [see GS's 1864-5-12].
Reports on Edward Sabine's paper [R.S.P.T., 154, 227-] comparing magnetic disturbances at Kew and Nertschinsk. Makes suggestion regarding period of solar spots and other matters, but deems paper worthy of publication.
Sends paper on earth's temperature for JH's opinion.
Asks JH to support a petition to the government for a pension for the widow and children of George Boole.
A letter from the Secretary of R. S. L. asking JH to review several papers. [Appended is a copy of JH's review in draft form.]
Responds to a paper by Dr. Barnard, in which is propounded a view of dispersion of light being related to its intensity.
Comments on GS's 1865-6-1.
Returns a paper on Indian meteorology, as he cannot devote time to it.
GS believes he erred in his 1865-6-1; now writes to correct it.
Asks JH to consider revising report on a paper.
A letter of introduction on behalf of the Prescott family.
Forwarding copy of paper by Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues; EK purports to show that movement of a star toward or away from an observer will affect its refraction in an achromatic prism.
Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].
Agrees with GS's assessment of Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper [see GS's 1866-2-27].