Thanks for the information on the eclipse. Comments on this. Events at the B.A.A.S. meeting. News of Wilhelm Struve's activities.
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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.
Thanks for the information on the eclipse. Comments on this. Events at the B.A.A.S. meeting. News of Wilhelm Struve's activities.
Has read G. B. Airy's paper on the eclipse. Would JH send on FB's remarks on the eclipse to Airy. Comments on the phenomenon of the eclipse.
Has sent the papers on the eclipse to G. B. Airy.
Calls attention to the increase in magnitude of the star Eta Cygni. Mentions some other variable stars.
Comments on the various reports of the recent eclipse. Regarding the star constellations.
Has seen G. B. Airy. No meeting at Airy's. Further regarding reports of the recent eclipse.
Has written to G. B. Airy. Regarding the various reports of the recent eclipse.
Encloses a publication. Thanks for the gift to Miss Elizabeth Baily.
Thanks for his paper on the Earth. Wishes his own Cape work was finished and of the same standard as FB's work. Regarding support for Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy when his election to the R.S.L. is being considered.
Regarding his own support for W. B. O'Shaughnessy. Star reform in the Southern hemisphere.
Will start work on the Southern Constellations without delay. Thanks for his remarks on W. B. O'Shaughnessy.
Describes his view of the Great Comet of 1843.
Has sent note to the Times about the comet.
Further regarding the method to be adopted for the printing of the star catalogue.
Invitation to come to Collingwood to discuss star arrangements.
Further regarding the constellations.
Further regarding the method to be adopted for the printing of the star catalogue.
Further regarding the constellations.
Encloses a draft of a letter that it is proposed should be sent to Sir Robert Peel.
Invites FB and his sister for a visit to Collingwood, where FB and JH can most easily complete the work of charting the southern stars.