Recommending Capt. Zahrtman of the Royal Danish Navy. Hopes to hear good news of 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.
Recommending Capt. Zahrtman of the Royal Danish Navy. Hopes to hear good news of JH.
Sends continuation of Belgian meteorological observations. Just finished magnetic observations. Plans to continue certain ones. Regrets being alone, without aids, 'in front of the transit instrument, the mural circle and the equatorial.'
Have obtained an act of incorporation for their library. Their father did not finish his translation of the fifth volume of the Mécanique céleste.
Sending William Simm's paper, which was read at the last meeting. Would be glad of JH's views on whether it should be printed in the R.A.S. Memoirs.
Mr. Zahn and John Truter in search of more meteorite specimens. Truter obtains a specimen near site of impact.
Chairman of H.E.I.C. granted permission for Major [Tenis] to delay departure to India for one month in order to become better acquainted with instruments to be used in magnetic observatories there.
Sends another meteorite specimen. Mr. Zahn sends group to Bokkerveld to seek more specimens. John Truter describes specimens in possession.
Must have received a long rambling letter written in February; hopes he will ignore it as he was suffering from a fever at the time. Returned on leave of absence for 12 months. Has introduced J. A. Wahlberg to Col. John Bell. P. H. Polemann died in April.
Has sent to JH papers relating to London University. Hopes JH will accept a senatorship.
Dublin University is available on 2 July for instruction of the officers to be employed in the magnetic observatories. Suggests a note be sent to the R.S.L. stating that the changes in instrumentation are only slight modifications.
Will be leaving London on 16 July and would like to meet JH at some convenient time to carry out H. C. Oersted's commission.
Sending JH some writings on geodesic measurements; reports the second measurement of annual parallax of 61 Cygni; comments on some other observations.
Supports furnishing a wooden building at St. Helena despite the high temperatures of the tropical climate. Considers the expenses involved.
Sending HH's Medical Notes and Reflections (1839).