Giving the plan of the Observatory.
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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.
Giving the plan of the Observatory.
Describes testing William Simms's object glass and then gives details of the equatorial mounting GA used; offers to send carpenter to JH to construct mounting so JH can test object glass [diagram].
Note sent with package from [J. F.] Encke of Berlin.
Sends Gamma Virginis data. Will report Aurora Borealis observations to R.A.S.
Announces change in meeting time of Council on 14 May.
Announces 15 May meeting of Physics Committee.
Several items of R.S.L. business.
Hears from the Dean of Ely that JH is busy writing his B.A.A.S. oration. Sent a new volume yesterday. Wished JH had been at RM's soiree on Wednesday.
Encloses transcript of letter dealing with object-glasses. Has given notice that he has withdrawn from the Physical Committee of the R.S.L.
Provides detailed information about JH's responsibilities as President of the B.A.A.S.
Updates and requests opinion on KS's newly devised 'universal photometer.'
Returned home and found JH's welcome letter awaiting him. Relates his experiences while traveling in Belgium and Holland. Gives his views on the beauties of Antwerp and Ghent. Saw a Frenchman ascend in a balloon. Starts for Scotland in two days' time for two months.
W. H. Smyth, Thomas Galloway, and AD went down and visited the library of the Mathematical Society and found it in very good state.
Announces meeting of R.S.L. Committee of Mathematics on 22 May.
Delayed answering his letter until he had carried out the observations upon pure Colophene. Gives the results of his experiments. H. E. Sainte-Claire Deville's original account is in Annales de chimie, vol. 75. Council of the R.S.L. recommended Edward Sabine to be the new Foreign Secretary.
Further arrangements about the B.A.A.S. meeting [see GP's 1845-5-10].
A friend of his would like JH's advice on a suitable telescope.
Suggesting points to be considered for the proposed new charter for the R.S.L. Remarks on the recent meeting of the Trustees of the British Museum.
Sends a series of magnetical and meteorological observations made at Washington.
Regarding the by-laws of the Society. Does not know anything about the Cambridge Transactions. Recommends various mathematical papers.