Concerning the method of observation by direct and reflected vision.
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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.
Concerning the method of observation by direct and reflected vision.
Will forward Cape Results to F. B. G. Nicolai at Mannheim Observatory.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
American ambassador George Bancroft gave permission for envoy to transmit official copies [of JH's Cape Results; see SE's 1847-9-23 and 9-28]. Smith, Elder & Co. retrieved all letters written to American recipients before these were sent from American consulate. Gratified to receive JH's permission to publish [JH's Cape Results]. Already have several orders. Encloses Bancroft's letter.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Congratulates JH on completion of many years' labor.
The equatorial on the Dublin Observatory dome needs improvement. In the last fifty-two months, WH has seen three new planets: Neptune, Iris, and Flora.
Just learned that American ambassador George Bancroft is disappointed at not receiving presentation copy [of JH's Cape Results].
Sending last Royal copy [of JH's Cape Results] today. Edward Everett's copy goes soon. Suggests sending copy to Prof. Robinson of New York.
Received JH's Cape Results with joy. JH gives new interest to 'our old friend the Great Bear.' WW thinking of setting up self registering photographic magnetic observatory at Lowestoft.
Asks JH to send [Cape Results] to Bavarian Legation.
Agrees, in Baron K. A. Hügel's absence, to forward copy [of JH's Cape Results] to Tübingen. Please send it to Württemberg legation.
Absence from Aberdeen delayed DD's thanks for Cape Results. Official acknowledgement from [Marischal] College senate will be sent soon.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Gratitude from Council of University of Utrecht for copy of JH's Cape Results donated to library.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Marvels at scope of JH's work.
One of GN's relatives, Henry Bunbury, is writing a book on the Cape and would like information on the educational system. Has advised Bunbury to write to JH. Would like a copy of the speech JH made at Cambridge in which he praised GN's government at the Cape. Comments on the present sorry state at the Cape.
[Form letter] Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Acknowledgement of receipt of JH's Cape Results by Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
Regarding H. C. Schumacher and the intended distribution of J. J. F. Lalande's catalogue.
Delighted that JH was awarded Gold Medal by King of Holland [for Cape Results].