Has compared all the stars in N. L. Lacaille's catalogue to the new observations and plan for the constellations.
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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 compared all the stars in N. L. Lacaille's catalogue to the new observations and plan for the constellations.
Sends copy of announcement from [Hervé] Faye at Paris observatory of a new comet in Orion. Requests use of JH's letter about double tail on [Halley's] comet in Astronomische Nachrichten. Note from Faye has a gross error in location of comet.
Has had visitors which accounts for the delay in answering letter. Thanks for memoir additions. Is sending paper dealing with use of CB's work. Somervilles are still in Rome. Is glad to hear good news of his mother.
Has been delayed in congratulating WH on pension by a delightful visit from Maria Edgeworth. Praises highly verses sent by WH's sister to Lady Herschel.
Sending him papers on his machine. Would like to see him when in town to discuss various matters. His youngest son has arrived in Calcutta.
Highly recommends a [William H.] Harvey (formerly Government Treasurer at the Cape) for the professorship of botany at Dublin.
Owing to ill health has had to quit H.M. service at the Cape and has been residing with his brother. Intends applying for the position of curator of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin, and would welcome a testimonial from JH. Sending this letter c/o W. J. Hooker as he does not know JH's address.
Thomas Henderson discovered a comet on 2 December. Thanks JH for diagram of JH's comet-sweeping telescope.
Believes the enclosed letter from W. H. Harvey refers to his candidature for a position in Dublin College. Thinks him a worthy candidate. Would like to show the Herschels round Kew anytime.
Is glad to have been put in touch with WH again. Supports WH for the Professorship of Botany in Dublin. Reminisces about the good times at the Cape.
[Responding to WH's 1843-12-6], JH has written to [William H.] Harvey and, in support of Harvey, to William R. Hamilton at Trinity College, Dublin. Thanks for invitation to visit Kew Gardens.
Regarding glass for the telescope for the Cape Town Observatory?
Regarding the habits and flowering of Cape bulbs. Has just had a good collection from the Cape. The Dublin post is still vacant.
Saw Charles Pritchard and his school [Clapham Grammar School] and was favorably impressed; has enrolled son William James beginning in January.
Gives his own ideas concerning the origin of diamonds and would like JH's comments. Would also like JH's views regarding the phosphorescent light that plays at night over the magnesite excavations.
Would like his views on a name for the combination of hydrogen and chlorine. Comments on the various theories. Has replied to [L. F.] Moser.
Jokes about WH's recent 'astronomical insignificance.'
Assures CH that he has preserved everything that she ever wrote to JH or that he found in William Herschel's library.
Further regarding the revision of the constellations.
Discusses his success in growing in England various flowers JH brought back from the Cape.