Unable to attend [R.S.L.] council meeting.
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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.
Unable to attend [R.S.L.] council meeting.
Thanks managers of Royal Institution for generosity in offering facilities [to Optical Glass Committee] for erection of a furnace.
Will be out of town for next [R.S.L.?] council meeting. Comments on glass subcommittee report.
Introducing his friend Mr. De Lavigne, who is visiting England. Mentioned him in his memoir on the Measure of the Arc.... Gives news of his own astronomical work. Edward Sabine arrives at the end of the month. Has obtained remarkable results with his two pendulums.
Regrets he will be unable to dine with him as he will be engaged in Huntingdonshire. Outlines the regulations for foreigners to visit the Dockyard.
Received letters of 8 Dec. through [Charles] Babbage, including interesting work on statistical returns for Netherlands. Rejoices at prospect of new observatory in Brussels. Promises to do his utmost to help. Honored to be correspondent of Academy of Brussels. Requests AQ address further letters to JH as 'President of Astronomical Society.'
Asks where AQ can procure best instruments in England. Desires to view the interiors of English observatories. Wishes to have [Alexis] Bouvard, who is in need of a change of scene after [P. S.] Laplace's death, accompany him. Sees translations of English scientific works, especially JH's, as a desirable project.
Outlining his scheme for election of candidates to a post [appears to be an astronomer for an observatory].
Has received TH's alterations for TH's publication. Astronomical Society's council is offering TH some volumes of Greenwich observations.
Relates the events of his journey to London.
Sending to the R.S.L. Memoires of the Académie for 1823.
Invites JH to Royal Academy of Science's museum.
Is in financial difficulties and would appreciate £80.
Comments on the observations in two of JG's papers.
Expressing the thanks of the Académie for the Discourse pronounced on the award of the medals at the Astronomical Society Apr. 1827.
Has sent Mr. Talbot's Microscopy. Has received a letter from Leopoldo Nobili. Observations on Nobili's experiments on the electrification of mercury.
Invitation from Duchess of Clarence [Adelaide] calls JH to London. Appointments with [Davies] Gilbert and R. H. Inglis on Monday. Will reschedule Board of Longitude meeting. Sent containers for Mr. Atherton. Paid MPH's bills. [Agnes] Kater is recovering. News of Beckwiths and James Grahame.
Is grateful for his letter and also the address to the Astronomical Society. Comments on his own paper on satellites.
Announcing his decision of resigning from the Secretaryship of the R.S.L.
Informs DG that JH is resigning as secretary of R.S.L. [at the anniversary date?] and expresses great regret that some regard the position of secretary not as an elected position, but in the patronage of the President.