Occupied with matters besides magnetism lately. Interest in science of Prince Consort [Albert] is praiseworthy. Discusses several observatories and letter of [T. W.?] Blakiston.
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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.
Occupied with matters besides magnetism lately. Interest in science of Prince Consort [Albert] is praiseworthy. Discusses several observatories and letter of [T. W.?] Blakiston.
Congratulates TM on receiving knighthood. Sends recommendations and makes inquiries concerning Harold Maclear's schooling.
Thanks for note of 29 [July]. Expresses doubt over accuracy of his observations of a solar eclipse. Stresses the necessity of careful comparison of various observations. Asks JH's opinion of a photograph with prominences greater and corona less than supposed.
Sends pamphlet on repaying the national debt. Discusses various problems and possibilities concerning the debt.
Has no knowledge of transactions affecting trust fund for W. H. B. Hollier, other than what JH noted in previous letters.
Sends JH's 'On Atoms' to WP.
Has today dispatched a parcel to JH containing a copy of a Chinese translation of JH's work on astronomy; thinks this work will be of great service to the Chinese.
Bibliography of works on terrestrial magnetism published in past four years.
George Grey's wife sent back to England after her affair was discovered.
Thanks HB for a copy of his work on the philosophy of nature.
Asks for meteorological data that RF may have collected.
Asks for details about a strange drawing of Jupiter JH had seen at the Royal Observatory some months earlier, and offers some comments about Warren de La Rue's eclipse photographs.
Has just heard a report that JH had predicted that there would be a series of heavy floods during the month of August. Wonders if this originated from JH.
Please send copies for distribution to JH's friends of JH's paper ['On a New Projection of the Sphere'].
Sending suggestions for improvements in the submarine cable and would like JH's comments.