Returning with gratitude HT's Statesman, which stimulated much political and social reflection in JH.
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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.
Returning with gratitude HT's Statesman, which stimulated much political and social reflection in JH.
Family and political news.
A. G. Melville will start Meteorological Observatory at Queen's College, Galway. CPS discusses JH article on plans for building an ice-making machine.
Discusses points of lunar and solar eclipse observations.
Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.
Answers questions raised by AH in his 1850-1-19 [letter contains notes made by AH].
Thanks for congratulations on marriage of HH's daughter. Notes HH's review of J. C. Prichard's Natural History of Man in December issue of Quarterly Review, written while on holiday in Armenia.
Has received an interesting communication from the Rev. J. B. Reade of Stone, near Aylesbury, on the zodiacal light. Comments on this.
Glad to have seen Lady Herschel and children. Is recovering slowly. Thanks JH for interest in [Francis] Ronalds's work. Discusses paper ES has submitted for R.S.P.T.
[A. C.] Petersen [?] claims to have found a new comet near JH's nebula #379. Look for it, but do not announce this discovery.
Proposes priorities for allocating £1000 granted to R.S.L. by government. Disagrees with RM and Edward Sabine; R.S.L. should not assume responsibility for observatory or any other permanent institution.
Would JH agree that his review of L. A. J. Quetelet's book on probabilities be allowed to stand until the June number as there is a large paper on observations for the next number [of the Edinburgh Review]?
Notes discrepancy in date for discovery of planet Hygeia. Please furnish correct date and return to Spottiswoodes & Shaw, printers.
Admires chimes analogy in JH's 'On Circulating Functions' [1818]. Resumed interest in partitions of numbers in development of periodic functions. Finds JH's method superior. Encourages him to publish it. WH and Augustus De Morgan developed original method, which WH erred in attributing to Leonhard Euler. De Morgan's paper to Cambridge [Philosophical] Society demonstrates theorem leading to proof of Euler's theorem.
Discusses shipping some of JH's books, with a shipment of other books for the Royal Society, to the R.S.L. in order to save shipping charges.
Explains HW's method for periodic functions.
Pleased to receive JH's letter, which he hastens to answer to remove any misconceptions regarding the equatorial. Comments on some of his observations of stars. Received [T. R.] Robinson's proposal for a large reflector. William Mann has just finished 8 years of tide gauge measures. Grieves to hear of the illness of W. R. Dawes. [George] Smalley's financial affairs have come to a crisis. Convict question has been settled; they are to be sent to Van Diemen's Land.
'Private & Confidential.' Urges JH to accept University of London's senate invitation to join Board, which JH previously declined. Names others invited.
'Private & Confidential.' All seven invited to join [University of London's] senate have agreed. Urges JH to reconsider.
Sends an interesting result of the comet computed by Mr. Barber of Etwell. W. R. Dawes's observations are about to be printed. Wilhelm Struve has some curious optical equations. Will be pleased to see Dr. [Henry?] Holland when he arrives.