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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.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Committee, together with an indication of business to be conducted at that meeting.
Changes the date of a Board of Visitors' meeting and urges JH to be there.
Has a copy of F. W. A. Argelander's Uranometria. Comments on this in relation to the proposed revision of the constellations.
G. B. Airy will be happy to receive JH tomorrow.
Asks JH to tell her where to find his newly published works on the action of light on chemical substances. Rome is not intellectually stimulating. Describes summer in Venice.
Would like a copy of JH's pamphlet on Education written at the Cape. Did he ever receive the Perennial Calendar? Comments on recent falling stars. Does he know where Stephen Lee's Catalogue of Changing Stars is? Mr. Slegg's brother is in a mental home.
Has received from the P.M. proof of an article replying to the attack of [L. F.] Moser on RH, also details of a new instrument by J. W. Draper. Would like JH's opinion on the instrument. Has had some good results with the fluorates recently.
Was appointed assistant in [mineralogical and geological branch of] British Museum. Thanks for JH's support.
Asks JH for description of JH's 'little sweeper' telescope; plans to give a sketch of it in WS's book.
Is sending him some new additions for the memoir by L. F. Menabrea. Mother keeps well.
Has received his letter and incorporated the amendments in the paper.
Does not have a complete list of his father's publications. Some he wished to suppress. Approves of JH's suggestion to send the manuscript of the history to Harvard. Is gratified by Dr. [Josiah?] Quincy's letter and also JH's impression of his father's character.