Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy] has responded to RP's queries. JH was right about him being off one day in his calculation.
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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.
Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy] has responded to RP's queries. JH was right about him being off one day in his calculation.
Announcing his discovery of a new planet. Gives readings.
Names mentioned in his note probably refers to F. D. Barker and W. H. Smith. Persons bearing JH's name have recently graduated; will be pleased to make inquiries.
Requests JH's opinion on his calculation on 'solar and sidereal ratios.'
Henry Lawson has nominated EL for the R.S.L. and would be grateful if JH would add his name to the certificate. Has just received an 11' refracting telescope from Lawson. Has doubtless heard of the newly formed British Meteorological Society. S. C. Whitbread is president, and they already have one hundred members. Has had several gifts of books for the Midland Observatory.
Proposes date for next and perhaps final R.S.L. government grant committee meeting. Wishes there were more funding. Predicts results of meeting. Updates on ES's health.
Sending a note from M. R. Gubbins of the Bengal Civil Service, which may be of interest to JH.
Members of B.A.A.S. doubt private funding for telescope will be forthcoming soon [see see TR's 1849-10-21, JH's 1849-10-27, & TR's 1849-11-1]. Will apply to government for funds. Asks JH's advice regarding telescope design.
Reports that [Annibal] de Gasparis has discovered a new asteroid, Parthenope. Gasparis credits JH with the discovery because JH had proposed the name Parthenope when AG had discovered Hygeia.
Acknowledges receipt of JH's 1850-5-28; GA will pass on the news to some others.
Invites JH to join Bishop of Chester [John Graham] and George Peacock as member of royal commission of enquiry into state and revenues of Cambridge University.
Note to present JH with a copy of AS's work on 'Instinct and Reason.'
R.S.L. sent JH's ['On the Algebraic Expression of the Number of Partitions...' (1850)], asking HW to judge its merits for publication in R.S.P.T.
Sending proofs. Will see that he has altered a few words here and there. Mrs. Jones's health has improved and she talks of going to Richmond.
Comments on the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the possibility, favored at Cambridge, that JH would serve on that committee.
Invitation to dinner next Wednesday.
Review of JH's paper [see HW's 1850-6-1] renewed HW's interest in 4- and 5-partitions of numbers. Will complete paper on combinations during vacation.
Favorable report to R.S.L. on JH's paper. Suggests minor changes. Verified only methods, not numerical values. Shows more general treatment of partitions than one that JH developed.
Does not want JH to enquire into the University of Oxford. JH may resign at the end of the year.
Has the two copies of the book reserved for JH and Lady Herschel. Will send them later.