Has WW received a packet of letters for the magnetism committee, which packet was circulating.
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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 WW received a packet of letters for the magnetism committee, which packet was circulating.
The dying Francis Baily remains alive, 'sustained by the amazing quantity of food he takes.'
Regarding F. W. Bessel's letter on the irregularity of proper motion in stars. Is it worth printing Nevil Maskelyne's observations on star places?
Although the dying Francis Baily sleeps all day and has not eaten, he remains calmly alive.
Urges GA to print any of John Pond's and Nevil Maskelyne's observations that seem free from serious error [see GA's 1844-8-28].
To the surprise of all, the dying Francis Baily still lives.
Requests JH's opinion on whether to attempt to obtain a grave in Westminster Abbey for the deceased president of the Astronomical Society [Francis Baily].
Reports gentle death of Francis Baily.
Have received the packet of 'magnetic letters' and passed them to George Peacock. Will attend the York B.A.A.S. meeting.