Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth [ed. by F. A. Edgeworth, 1867]. Praises Edgeworth. Whom should JH thank for this gift?
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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.
Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth [ed. by F. A. Edgeworth, 1867]. Praises Edgeworth. Whom should JH thank for this gift?
Glad to have met JH's son [John]. Describes benefits of [R.S.L.] meetings for cultivation of science.
Had written previously to JH to obtain more information about JH's father, William. Is now asking JH for a response to the same requests.
Sends a theorem, which beats Blaise Pascal's by points.
Has only just received his letter. Feared for the safety of her parcel. Wishes he would write a poem on photography. John Taylor and the Camerons think that JH's poetry is beautiful. Writes in haste to catch the post.
Thanks RW for sending RW's Mittheilungen and RW's Neue Untersuchungen. Replies to RW's queries about JH's ancestry and about the current state of JH's father's largest reflecting telescope.
Received JH's insertions. Will send proof on Friday.
Thanks JH for his letter, and RW sends on additional writings in astronomy.
Comments on AD's theorem [see AD's 1867-4-20].
What does JH think of the idea of establishing a meteorological observatory on the Pic du Midi?
Regrets he was out when JH called. Thanks for the elegant verses. Will be moving shortly to a place nearer London, which promises much. Gives notes on some more sun spots, which he has recently observed.
Would like FH to study a phenomenon that JH has noticed on the sun's disk and that has no connections with sun-spots.
About traveling to Halton; JH is finding working on his double star catalogue fairly severe drudgery.
Is puzzled by two apparent contradictions in JH's recent book Familiar Lectures. Are they printer's errors? Was related by marriage with the late Sir John William Lubbock.
Invite JH to give lecture series at Literary and Philosophical Society next winter.
Thank you for his letter. There are no misprints or conflicting statements in his Familiar Lectures. Explains the various points.
Preparing for total eclipse of sun in 1868. Conferred with William Huggins about making spectroscopic analysis of red protuberances. Asks JH's opinion.
Asks JH's opinion on matter of purchase of expensive telescope for solar eclipse (1868) and other observations by William Huggins.
Is uncertain if he has detected the lightlines on the solar surface to which JH has called attention, but there does seem to be something unusual there. No sun spots are visible just now.
Thanks RW for sending him a photograph of RW; sends photograph of JH in return.