Thanks JH for the volume of verse. Hopes the Herschels will visit if they come 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.
Thanks JH for the volume of verse. Hopes the Herschels will visit if they come to London.
Asks JH to accept sunspot observations made over 14 years by the late [J. W.] Pastorff of Altona Observatory. Accompanying micrometrical measurements are worthless due to mounting of telescope.
Would be pleased to receive JH's paper. His own house is still sad and silent.
Returns [WB's] paper on the zodiacal light. Notes error and offers JH's ideas about light's source.
Cannot accept the invitation to stay during the B.A.A.S. meeting in Edinburgh, as JH will be unable to come.
Clarifies results of pressure oscillations on two coasts of India as similar despite different weather conditions, and deems results thus unsatisfactory; explores reasons and suggests solutions for lack of success.
Believes that Edward Sabine has brought J. H. Lefroy's paper on the Aurora Borealis to JH's notice. Now presents another report on this subject, with comments.
Thanks JH for some historical information on events of the first century A.D. [for TL's study on the life of St. Paul].
Sends a copy of the notice in the Times of a fall of ice in Rossshire, also an account of a similar fall in India in 1826. Comments on these occurrences. [James] Dalmahay has constructed a slide rule for computing the dew-point.
Has addressed a letter to the East India Company, which has raised a storm.
About some difficulty in trying to determine [Andrew] Graham's interest in the Trivandrum post.
[John Russell] Hind is being considered for the post of astronomer at Trivandrum in India.
Please ask JH to send receipts to account for £316 spent on equatorial telescope from Munich.
[Andrew] Graham is not interested in the post [see JH's 1850-4-23].
Encloses note from accountant general of Navy about payment of Cape telescope. Send receipt to FB to complete transaction.
Sends [J. W.] Pastorff's solar observations [see HS's 1850-4-16] as JH's own property.
A Mr. Patton has applied for a position as astronomer. Is he 'conversant with practical observing'?
Hopes to present the petition on Monday. Had a letter from Mary Somerville at Turin introducing Count and Countess Grizzo.
Discusses balloon experiments to explain fall of barometer with humidity, and explains more discrepancies in vapor-pressure observations. Mentions new 'Hygrometric condenser' as an alternative to wet bulb experiments.
Packet and documents are ready. When can he call?