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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.
Has received the R.A.S.M.N. containing the article on the movements of the asteroids. Has addressed a letter on the subject to the Moniteur universel and would be glad of JH's comments.
Sends an extract from JH's letter, which has been printed in the Moniteur.
Has lost Alexander Herschel's Paris address. Otto Struve will be visiting the Observatory on 10 Aug.
Regarding Michel Chasles and the Isaac Newton-Blaise Pascal forgeries.