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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.
Is pleased with the interest JH is taking in his volume. Understands the difficulty of comprehending it at once. Further comments on his own dynamical theory of dispersion.
Comments on exchange of astronomical works with JH. CP expects to improve the observatory library now that the Prussians have taken over Altona. Is making arrangements to carry out some pendulum experiments.
Is preparing a new edition of his book Le ciel, which J. N. Lockyer is translating into English. Would like to reproduce new information on shooting stars and meteors and would like JH's assistance.
Is prepared to take charge of Mrs. Mary Somerville's memoir. Found her wonderfully well when he met her at Naples.
Has safely received the packet containing Mrs. Mary Somerville's manuscript. She has been awarded the Victoria medal of the Geographical Society.
Is pleased that his book, the Government of England, meets with JH's approval.
Is happy that his discovery of 70 Ophiuchi was included in JH's catalogue of double stars. Thanks for correction on a logarithm of the focal point equation; intends to change this in Astronomische Nachrichten.
Thanks for the additional information regarding Argus by Elias Loomis and J. Tebbutt; it will appear in the next R.A.S.M.N.