Is sending William Pole's protest against the system of equal temperament in music [abstract of protest given].
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.
Is sending William Pole's protest against the system of equal temperament in music [abstract of protest given].
Stating that the Board of Visitors could not afford to lose the services of JH.
Just received JH's paper. Will need two weeks to review it.
Thanks JH for his note. Asks that JH's paper on scales [1868 'On Musical Scales'] be made available to him.
Encloses biographical notes on W. R. Dawes.
Sending a copy of his speech on Weights and Measures. Will be spending the recess in Dorset.
Discusses his diagram of planetary distances to the sun and earth. Will soon have autographs of sun showing the 'change-up' of a spot.
Will publish JH's article on musical scales in October issue[?] of his journal (Quarterly Journal of Science). Discusses JH's opinions on copyrights.
Additional biographical notes on W. R. Dawes.
W. R. Dawes's only publications were one or two sermons and astronomical observations at George Bishop's observatory. Sent Dawes's measurements of double stars to William Huggins. Dawes's diaries did not begin until 1852.
Tyndall wishes to resign his lectureship at the Royal Institution. If Alexander [Herschel] would like this position, RM can recommend his appointment to the Governors.
The three volumes will be dispatched from the binders next week. Should he require any more he will be charged at trade price. They wish the sales would improve.
Outlines the constitution of the Royal School of Mines. Now finds he has to consult other professors before he can recommend Alexander [Herschel] for a Lectureship.
Regarding JH's comments on a paper of Francis Abbott read at the R.A.S.'s meeting on 12 June. Believes the paragraph in question came from a paper of Sir William Herschel. Understands that Lieut. John Herschel has just examined this nebula.
Is grateful for JH's examination of his paper on the Pyramids. Comments on various aspects of this paper. Thanks for his two papers on weights and measures.
Has worked much on revision of his Physique sociale. Asks for JH's changes to JH's review in Edinburgh Review. Puts translation at JH's disposal.
Offers translation of JH's review [of AQ's Lettres sur la théorie des probabilités] to look over. Has been updating his own text to reflect progress.
Flattered that AQ wants JH's remarks to preface AQ's new work. No need to send French translation of JH's work. Asks AQ to omit certain passages.
Has printed a Memorial about Norwich. Discusses this pamphlet. Has been ill. Discusses solitude and says almost none of his friends are still living.
Thanks for gift sent to JH's daughter Amelia; comments on William Petrie's number mysticism with the Great Pyramid.