Has climbed Ben Nevis.
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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.
Has climbed Ben Nevis.
Concerning the 'Standards.'
Regarding A. R. Clarke's paper on Geodesy. Benjamin Peirce's Lunar Table. The sun's parallax. JH's nebulae catalogue. Regarding the English inch.
Is still not happy with the earth's axis as a source of standard length; sends JH the results of A. R. Clarke's calculations on the figure of the earth [see JH's 1863-10-8].
Regarding employment for GA's son in the Educational Departments in India.
Regarding the Proceedings of the Southern Telescope Committee.
Requesting JH to write to Thomas Maclear to get him to finish his work on the Trigonometrical Survey of the Cape.
Is returning correspondence on Southern Telescope Committee and the Melbourne telescope. Comments on the working of the scheme.
Regarding the work of Thomas Maclear.
Regarding JH's remarks about colored fringes in the clouds.
Thanking him for his statement about solar motion.
Replies to JH about the date of the transit of Mercury [see JH's 1864-1-[26]].
Regarding Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle), the Treasury and the Commission on Weights and Measures.
The practice at the Royal Observatory is to compare proof copies with calculation sheets [see JH's 1864-2-5].
Further regarding the forthcoming meeting of the Standards Commission. Regarding JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae.'
Informs JH about train service [see JH's 1864-2-5], and encourages JH to stay with GA from the night before the meeting.
Regarding JH's forthcoming visit. On the platinum in the pound weight becoming browned.
Expecting him soon. Experiments on the National pound.
Regarding the transit of Mercury. Error in calculating the pound weights.
Meeting of the Standards Commission on 16 March.