Asks for meteorological data that RF may have collected.
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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.
Asks for meteorological data that RF may have collected.
Asks for information about wrecks at sea and lives lost.
Tells JH he will search for the requested weather data. Encloses 'Weather Reports in the Newspaper.'
Thanks for a number of RF's writings; asks for more rainfall data to try to establish a relationship between rainfall and the solar cycle.
Reports that rainfall information is not as complete as should be. Describes available data from Meteorological Department. Thanks JH for comments on his work.
Discusses data gathering from 'the colonies.' Forwards a Scottish publication on meteorology.
Sends more data and papers on meteorological matters. Discusses weather observations by C. P. Smyth.
Thanks for all the material received; comments on some of RF's meteorological ideas.
More rainfall data.
Comments on RF's writing on drifting ice; comments extensively on RF's ideas about air circulation.
Thanks JH for his advice. Comments on various aspects of Iceland and Greenland.
Discusses James Stark's weather observations.
Describes a starfish brought alive to England from Iceland by an amateur naturalist.
Thanks JH for critiques of his paper; discusses Matthew Maury's work Physical Geography of the Sea.
Comments on difficulties JH finds in some of RF's writings.
Discusses atmospheric wave theory in reference to an experiment in JH's Meteorology. Describes weather patterns observed on the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.
On the effect of the earth passing through a comet's tail.
Thanks for sending his Physical Geography. Wonders whether a rainbow could be reflected to the eye from water. Startled to read J. R. Hind's letter about the comet. Encloses a letter from a railway surveyor about an earthquake in Mendoza. This person has been responsible for the railway between Chile and Peru. Comments on the gradients and working of the line.
Comments on whether a rainbow could be reflected to the eye from water. Comets approach quite near to the earth on many occasions. Regarding the development of South America.
Is grateful for JH's views on the rainbow question. Intends to send his comments to the London Review, if he has no objections. What effects would the Comet have if it hits the Earth? Mr. Wheelwright appears to be in error on his earthquake views.