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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.
Asks JH to inspect first magnetic and meteorological observations from [Tasmania] and Toronto. Hopes North American observations will be increased.
Encloses B.A.A.S. statement of objectives for Richmond Observatory, for which B.A.A.S. Council asks JH to organize goals and support annual subsidy.
A note to arrange a meeting with JH.
Would like JH to come to Manchester on 23-25 to give support for the Kew Observatory. F. W. Bessel and G. A. Erman are coming.
Encloses bill from W. H. Allen & Co. regarding Breslau observatory. [JH annotation: Details of bill.]
Note accompanying a sample of iridium.
A note to arrange dinner with JH.
Acknowledges JH's payment for stationery for Breslau magnetic observatory.
Informs JH of FB's arrival in Manchester and of further travel plans.
Sorry [F. W.] Bessel's health is 'so indifferent.' Glad JH is coming to [B.A.A.S. meeting].
About further travel plans, and people FB is meeting as he travels in Britain.
A proposal to complete the calculating machine has been made by Charles Babbage, and AH wants JH's opinion of it.
Account of the eclipse seen at Pavia.
Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has place him on a committee to conduct experiments by capture balloon on the atmosphere.
Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to supervise the translation and publication of foreign scientific memoirs.
JH, William Whewell, George Peacock, Humphrey Lloyd, and Edward Sabine are appointed by the B.A.A.S. to study systems of simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations. They will be granted £89.
Does JH plan to publish 'Treatise on Light' in separate form?
On his last passage down the Red Sea the Captain informed TN of the singular alteration of his chronometers. Comments on this and would like JH's views. Magnetic station at Aden has never been set up and the instruments are still at Bombay. Examined the ancient canal while at Suez. Will be pleased to assist JH in any way.
Thank you note after FB visited Collingwood.
Warm thanks for JH's kind hospitality; some comments about Prussian Order of Merit.