A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
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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 Commission.
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].
Regarding the final payments for the Liverpool Telescope.
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.
Wants a copy of his Cape Results for his assistant. Would he continue to observe the duration of annularity in the coming eclipse?
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.'
Regarding a letter from the Newcastle Philosophical Society.
Concerning the method of observation by direct and reflected vision.
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.
Regarding H. C. Schumacher and the intended distribution of J. J. F. Lalande's catalogue.
Has dealt with the problem of thanking H. C. Schumacher [see GA's 1847-10-6].
Did he see the eclipse? Agrees with him over the H. C. Schumacher proposals.
Is prepared to report on GA's trip to see Pulkowa Observatory, if JH does not need the meeting time [see JH's 1847-10-28].
Clarifies the agenda for the next R.A.S. meeting, and reports that the large refracting telescope is on the way to the Cape.
Regarding the forthcoming meeting. Concerning the telescope used at Pulkowa.
Regarding magnetic disturbances.