Sends a few photographs and says he has read JH's recent memoir. Will comment later.
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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.
Sends a few photographs and says he has read JH's recent memoir. Will comment later.
Asks for JH's support at next week's vestry meeting. JH is entitled to six votes.
Physical Committee yesterday amended report by J. D. Forbes and recommended that R.S.L. establish a magnetical and meteorological observatory in vicinity of London.
Discusses difficulties with establishing public magnetical and meteorological observatory. Mentions other business.
If JH wishes, will continue barometric [?] observations at Royal Society Apartments, which observations JH had requested while at Cape.
[Charles] Riddell's observations suggest Europe and North America experience magnetic disturbances at similar times, but in opposite directions. Suggests course of action for [Charles] Riddell and Lieutenant Younghusband in North America.
Praises various photographs by WT and notes changes in some. Recounts optical experiments, recent and planned, by JH on rock-salt.
Payment for instruments sent to Breslau observatory. Received proofs of JH's paper, which does justice to Humphrey Lloyd. Spoke to Lord Melbourne about establishing a magnetical and meteorological observatory in vicinity of London. Compares expenses for permanent and temporary observatories.
Has talked to William Lamb (Lord Melbourne) about permanent magnetic and meteorological observatory. Was received 'as well as we could have anticipated,' but without definite answer. Thinks head for observatory should be appointed and give lectures.
Announces 30 June meeting of Committee of Physics including Meteorology.
Committee will meet next Monday to appoint 'a Master and Mistress.'
Announces meeting of R.S.L. Council on Saturday 27 June. [JH annotation: Received on '27th June!']
Sends to HL a sheet of curves laid down by [Charles] Riddell, comparing Brussels declination observations with those made in Toronto. JH frequently refers to HL's work on the subject of terrestrial magnetism.
Has received JH's letter with the sheet of curves laid down by [Charles] Riddell. Comments on these. Is honored by the notice JH has taken of his share in the magnetic project. Encloses note on the wet bulb [thermometer].
Thanks AD for a correction in one of JH's writings; tries to explain the partial echo that occurs when blowing across the end of an open pipe.
Believes that R.S.L.'s request for £3000 grant to establish permanent magnetic and meteorological observatory is too hasty. Urges caution. Points out potential problems.
Council passed 'with great unanimity' resolutions regarding permanent magnetic observatory to be established in London.
Feels unable to become a member of the new society proposed by Halliwell, but wishes it well.
Prince Albert will meet R.S.L. Council next Thursday at Buckingham Palace.
Recommends printing all three papers sent to JH—G. B. Airy's on spectral bands, [Robert] Hunt's on influence of iodine on photographic papers, and that by Lord Oxmantown [William Parsons] on large reflecting telescopes.