Relates the events of his journey to London.
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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.
Relates the events of his journey to London.
Sending to the R.S.L. Memoires of the Académie for 1823.
Invites JH to Royal Academy of Science's museum.
Is in financial difficulties and would appreciate £80.
Expressing the thanks of the Académie for the Discourse pronounced on the award of the medals at the Astronomical Society Apr. 1827.
Has sent Mr. Talbot's Microscopy. Has received a letter from Leopoldo Nobili. Observations on Nobili's experiments on the electrification of mercury.
Is grateful for his letter and also the address to the Astronomical Society. Comments on his own paper on satellites.
Regrets JH's retirement as secretary to R.S.L. Names possible successors.
FB pleased by JH's note yesterday announcing JH's resignation [as secretary of] R.S.L. Hopes JH will accept 'another office' in R.S.L. at future date.
Regrets JH's resignation as secretary of R.S.L.
JH's resignation as R.S.L. secretary. Reports finding papers. Will confirm that Greenwich observations reached Thomas Henderson. Thermometers and [John] Dalton's Elements arrived safely. Thanks for invitation to visit Slough.
Regrets JH's resignation of R.S.L. secretaryship.
Offering him the position of Professor of Higher Mathematics at London University.