Has no power to determine JH's successor to mastership of Mint. Make application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].
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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.
Has no power to determine JH's successor to mastership of Mint. Make application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].
Sends specimen of esculine, or polychrome, extracted from horse chestnut. It exhibits optical properties that JH recently investigated. Offers to send specimen of colophene. Asks JH's recommendations for foreign secretary of R.S.L., following death of J. F. Daniell. This officer must supervise magnetic and meteorological observatories. [JH annotation: 'By all means appoint Sab(ine).']
Delayed answering his letter until he had carried out the observations upon pure Colophene. Gives the results of his experiments. H. E. Sainte-Claire Deville's original account is in Annales de chimie, vol. 75. Council of the R.S.L. recommended Edward Sabine to be the new Foreign Secretary.
Sending a certificate for R. J. Kane and would be pleased if JH would put his name at the head of the list.
TG volunteers to succeed JH as master of Mint if JH resigns. Willing to replace JH in summers when TG's college duties are suspended. [JH annotation to wife Margaret: '...there are greater fools in the world' than JH.]
Was gratified to see his handwriting, and has pleasure in sending the order. Duties were oppressive but have now eased. The Pyx has been delayed for two years but must take place soon.
Regarding Mrs. Emma Buckle's (wife of William) application for financial assistance. Would JH address a letter to him stating the facts. Does not hold out much hope of obtaining financial assistance from the government.
Thanks for his letter and also the enclosed one of B. H. Babbage. Regarding appointments to the proposed Mint at Melbourne. The difficulties involved.
His letter has been forwarded. JH's correspondence with the Mint to which J. G. Hubbard refers has been published in the Report of the Commissioners on International Coinage 1868. Thinks expansion of mercurial amalgam is due to hydrogen. Hopes JH will accept a small medallion.