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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.
Returns a letter from JH.
Sending parts of his paper on the Lagocyclic curve.
Has shown JH's son's letter to [C. E.] Trevelyan and encloses his reply. Affairs in India may become more dangerous.
Sending his work on optics. Comments on their mutual work in this field.
Asks JH to sign a document relating to Col. Gelland [?].
JH's only knowledge of Hollier trust fund was explained in earlier letters. Signs and returns annual report for trust fund.
Thanks for his book on optics. Comments on various points.
Sends a riddle. Has added a stanza. Does not credit the story of [T. C.?] Jansen's children. Comments on Roger Bacon's telescope.
Would like JH's support for his candidature for the R.S.L.
Hopes he is well as he has not heard from him for a long time. Sends his own theories regarding the composition of force.
Will bring down his R.S.L. form to Collingwood. Regarding the phonetics of Hindustani.
Has used JH's writings for his lectures, but would like a simplification of statements dealing with the relation of temperature and pressure in the atmosphere.
Tries to help EB understand JH's writings on meteorology; some comments on location of writings.
Thanks for his suggestion for a lecture on graphical processes. Has had little communication with W. R. Birt since the latter left Kew. Has returned the book by Karl Kreil. Would be pleased to receive the Russian Observations.
Responds to AD's 1859-2-24 on forces, which degenerates into nonsense; comments on James Kemplay's writing on comets.
Is thinking of applying for the position of Observer at the Radcliffe Observatory and would like JH's support.
Wants information for the proposed visit to Auvergne. Regarding the motion of the sun.
His letter and accompanying packet arrived for which accept his best thanks for the valuable contribution to the literature of physical geography. Is gratified by JH's commendation of his own Physical Atlas.
Intends to stand for the University of Cambridge and would be pleased to receive his vote and interest. [Note on JH's reply: Shall have his vote; in any case will not vote against him.]
Royal Society of Edinburgh would like JH to referee a paper on the mean temperature of the earth by J. D. Forbes. Would JH be willing? Sends a little biography of the late Professor Thomas Henderson, who is now nearly forgotten in his native city.