Seeks GA's opinion about including a specific passage in F. W. Bessel's obituary notice for the R.A.S. Also inquires about the printing of the star catalogues of N. L. Lacaille and J. J. L. Lalande.
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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.
Seeks GA's opinion about including a specific passage in F. W. Bessel's obituary notice for the R.A.S. Also inquires about the printing of the star catalogues of N. L. Lacaille and J. J. L. Lalande.
Comments on the unsatisfactory [to JH] resolution regarding the awarding of the annual R.A.S. medal.
Proposes that R.A.S. award medals regarding the discovery of Neptune to both U. J. J. Leverrier and J. C. Adams, giving first honors to Leverrier, and specifying distinctly the grounds for awarding the second. Hopes his resolution will not be seen as blaming anyone and that it will have a 'healing and a friendly effect.'
Continuing to try to resolve the medal problem [see GA's 1847-2-9].
The books are on their way [see GA's 1847-3-30].
Believes he has worked out the German notation of star positions [see GA's 1847-2-1].
Uses GA's comments [see GA's 1847-5-10] finally to achieve clarification of Thomas Henderson's calculations.
Further to resolving the time conflict [see GA's 1847-5-15] and sending out invitations for Visitation Day.
Will send measurements of the requested stars [see GA's 1847-5-15] as soon as JH can consult the appropriate papers.
Gives GA an address for the next while, and tells GA what JH has done about invitations for Visitation Day [see JH's 1847-5-19].
Provides the measurements for Beta Aquarius and Alpha 2 Capricorni [see JH's 1847-5-23].
Agrees with GA [see GA's 1847-6-11] about paying up accounts.
Will be happy to supply a copy of the Cape Results [see GA's 1847-9-27]; the next asteroid should be called Flora, to provide 'young goddesses for Mars and Jupiter to admire.'
About observing stars with the transit circle, and timing the annulus [of an eclipse?].
Was too cloudy to observe the eclipse; very worried about the health of Thomas Maclear.
Has dealt with the problem of thanking H. C. Schumacher [see GA's 1847-10-6].
Clarifies the agenda for the next R.A.S. meeting, and reports that the large refracting telescope is on the way to the Cape.
Suggests to GA that his observations [see GA's 1847-11-1] might rather support than destroy the theory of the thermo-electric origin of terrestrial magnetism.
Asks GA for details about the scientific support provided by Hugh Percy; also asks about the availability of star charts on the Berlin Academy scheme.
Is still working on the distribution list for star catalogues [see GA's 1846-11-19].