Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.
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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.
Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.
Proposes hypothetical problem in physics of gravitation involving three unequal bodies falling equal distances. Asks JH to respond in Good Works.
Circular Magnetic results. Observations of solar spots. Determining Longitude.
Circular Magnetic and meteorological observations.
Has been nominated Professor of Maths at the Native College and is in charge of the Observatory, now being erected. Would welcome suggestions from JH as to observations that would be useful.
Accepts position at Blackheath Preparatory School.
Discusses glass manufacturing.
Has established a Meteorological Society at Port Louis. What type of barometer would JH advise them to adopt? Hopes to extend their activities to magnetic observations later.
Sending a proposition which he thinks will be worth his notice.
Requests financial assistance in building a new church in JH's parish.
AL claims to be a relative; could JH help financially with the education of AL's sons?
His first series of illustrations are temporarily bound up and if JH likes he can borrow them for six months. Would like to retain Mr. Corda's book for a little longer.
Has started a fund for the Miss Grettons.
Has received a letter from the Misses Gretton and in consequence has opened an account on their behalf.
Writes to support the candidacy of Francis Tudhope for a position teaching in the Government Schools at the Cape of Good Hope.
In Francis Beaufort's absence, AM is trying to clarify the matter of an astronomical instrument, apparently obtained from George Merz & Son.
Would like some contributions from JH for the Churchman's Family Magazine.
Has used 'elegant' extracts of JH in book [Prelim. Discourse] to familiarize students 'on the continent' with Francis Bacon's work. Is sending copy of book to JH.
Sending a copy of his work 'Our satellite,' and would be grateful for any comments.
Sending copy of a resolution passed by the Birmingham Philosophical Society and requesting JH to let his name be included as an honorary member.