Apologizes for not being at home when JH called, and thanks JH for his family's kindness to GA's children during the past winter.
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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.
Apologizes for not being at home when JH called, and thanks JH for his family's kindness to GA's children during the past winter.
Has never heard the polar axis approximation. JH's treatise on perspective must be very complete. John Taylor is his old publisher. Has got 64 more syllogisms symbolized.
Thanks for birthday gift. Health of friends.
Has just received a memoir from Bastiaan Bomme of Middelburg on the comet of 1264 and 1556. Sends the chief results. Comments on the findings and future appearances of the comet.
Sends a book on optics; if JH likes it, then tell others about it. Comments on some aspects of JH's Outlines Astr.
Asks GA for help in identifying an astronomer for the observatory at Trivandrum, India.
More on prospects for the vacant astronomer post at Trivandrum.
Other possibilities for post at Trivandrum [see JH's 1850-3-[30 or earlier]].
Comments on a number of possibilities for the post at Trivandrum [see JH's 1850-3-20].
Giving his views on the proposed supply of a large reflector for the Cape Observatory.
Thanks GA for his 1850-4-1, and provides details of a likely candidate.
Sends some post office stamps to pay for a 'certificate'.
Letter of thanks and good wishes.
Has just received the Admiralty Manual. Thinks it would be helpful if some tables for determining the heights of mountains by means of the barometer could be included in the next edition. Points out an error in the Nautical Almanac.
Letter of thanks and good wishes.
Selection procedures for the vacant astronomy post at Trivandrum [see RS's 1850-3-31].
Discusses changes in system of awarding R.S.L. Royal Medals.
Found his letter and petition waiting for him on his return from East Kent, and had already presented it to the House of Commons. Outlines the events.
Letter to accompany a gift of the first part of FB's popular psychology work.
Is sending for his perusal his own observations on the zodiacal light for the first quarter of the year. Comments on this.