If JH wishes, will continue barometric [?] observations at Royal Society Apartments, which observations JH had requested while at Cape.
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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.
If JH wishes, will continue barometric [?] observations at Royal Society Apartments, which observations JH had requested while at Cape.
Announces 30 June meeting of Committee of Physics including Meteorology.
Announces meeting of R.S.L. Council on Saturday 27 June. [JH annotation: Received on '27th June!']
Prince Albert will meet R.S.L. Council next Thursday at Buckingham Palace.
Formal statement that JH received parcel of manuscripts. Announces R.S.L. Council meeting for 9 July.
At direction of J. W. Lubbock, encloses letter addressed to William Lamb (Lord Melbourne) by R.S.L. president [Spencer Compton] [regarding magnetic observatory].
Questioned porter concerning meteorolite, but received no additional information concerning its whereabouts. Hopes JH recovers it soon.
Forwards from J. W. Lubbock letters from [R.S.L.] foreign office regarding establishment of magnetic observatory at Hammerfest and informs JH that Adolphe Quetelet will be in town.
Forwards from Edward Sabine resolution of council regarding JH's appointment to committee considering use of building formerly occupied by Kew Observatory.
Asks JH to report on whether and why JH thinks J. D. Forbes's paper on transparency of atmosphere and solar range worthy of Royal Medal.
[J. C.] Ross has returned safely. Ross has a box for JH.