Proposed travel arrangements for 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.
Proposed travel arrangements for JH.
Decides not to print G. Reichenbach's papers on JH's advice. Will consider Reichenbach's papers in the future.
The colored meteors were too low on the horizon for JH to see them. Comments on the number of falling stars when comets approach the earth. Sends copies of his essay on comets and a book for children. Is working on various papers including one on 'Deafness in Balloons.' Is co-operating with L. A. J. Quetelet in a Register of Periodical Phenomena.
Regarding H. C. Schumacher and the Stephen Groombridge observations.
Requests copy of JH's observations made in 1811. Asks latest opinion of JH on Gamma Virginis before the publication of his Cycle of Celestial Objects for the Use of Naval, Military, and Private Astronomers.
Is grateful for the very interesting photograph; will keep the preparation secret if he discovers it. Has been trying many experiments with benzoates with curious results, but bad weather has stopped progress so has now turned to thermography to test the truth of Mr. Prater's conclusions. Comments on these.
Invitation from the Local Council to visit Cork for the B.A.A.S. meeting.
President of the Società Italienne des Sciences has received the invitation for members to attend the B.A.A.S. meeting at Cork. Regrets the length of the journey prevents members attending, but have nominated Michael Faraday to attend.
Regarding a letter from F. W. Bessel. On holiday on the Isle of Wight.
Is on the point of returning to the Cape and will be pleased to deliver anything to Thomas Maclear. Has borrowed three chronometers from the Admiralty for the magnetic survey. His stay was too short for him to visit JH.
Sending details of a singular appearance in the heavens on 16 June.
Answers questions raised in JH's 1843-6-5; comments on other astronomical matters.
Has received the two parcels of books. Regarding imperfections in the actinometer.
Commissioners of Treasury invite JH to join committee to oversee construction of 'New Parliamentary Standards of Weight and Measure.'
Legal matters concerning the lease.
Thanks for JH's 1843-6-16.
JH's theory of orbits of Castor and Gamma Virginis. Observations of Gamma Virginis by W. R. Dawes and by WS.
A friend has inquired when Pisces became the sign of the Vernal Equinox; can JH help him? Regarding the comet they observed on their passage home.
Have received his draft and done as instructed.
Regarding a meeting of the new 'Standard' committee.