Thanks JH for saving her from publishing a fault-filled book. Describes eruptions of Vesuvius. Agnes [Greig] enjoyed visiting the Herschels. MS wishes she could see them again.
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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.
Thanks JH for saving her from publishing a fault-filled book. Describes eruptions of Vesuvius. Agnes [Greig] enjoyed visiting the Herschels. MS wishes she could see them again.
Has returned sheets one and two to the printers and is sending the corresponding part of the manuscript. Please send his corrections to J. Henderson.
The Archbishop [of Canterbury, C. T. Longley] will be lunching with EL on the 24th and if JH is able will he join them for lunch.
Has received with great pleasure JH's obituary of their dear friend [William Whewell]. Such a clear account was much needed.
Eyesight is failing. Discusses William Whewell's death and pays him tribute. Says Professor [W. H.] Thompson will replace Whewell.
Responds to JH's critique of FJ's theory of construction of musical scale.
Has asked J. Henderson to send him the revised proof of JH's paper 'Additional Identification of Double Stars.' It will appear in the Monthly Notes and later in the Memoirs.
Sending his impression, formed during a recent visit to Dublin, of the Great Telescope destined for Melbourne. Considers it a triumph of mechanical invention.
Further regarding his theories on sound.
Has received the bill of William Ewart concerning the metrical scale.
Explains conditions of his will and the distribution of his estate.
Death of Pierce Butler. Recommended F. W. Holland, who has explored Palestine, to Henry James. RM has been too busy to keep track of survey fund.
Forwards a drawing of the great nebula of Orion, which he has just received from Angelo Secchi for JH. Quotes Secchi's remarks.
Proposes a principle for the establishment of musical scales to satisfy musicians, not mathematicians, as JH had apparently done.
Has made arrangements to have copies of solar autographs sent. Discusses sunspots. Inquires whether JH knows of the University of Lund in Sweden.
Thanks JH for calling AH's attention to 'mischievous & preposterous metric measure bill.' Will work to defeat it [in Parliament].
Thanks JH for his Familiar Lectures. Sends meteorological information.
Is graphically charting the sun and planets to compare them. Explains the lines and positions of bodies in his diagrams.
Working on rejection of metric bill [in Parliament]. Grateful for information provided by JH.
Problem of Irish church has forced postponement of Parliamentary discussion of metric bill until 13 May.