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Herschel14196

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0422; Reel 1087
Summary:

Told John Romilly that JH cannot attend meeting to review amendments to Cambridge [University] bill. Large protest meeting by university residents yesterday. Believes Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] will abandon bill. GP's view of how amended bill should distribute authority at university.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14197

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0423; Reel 1087
Summary:

Appeals to Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] are producing great changes in [parliamentary bill for new statutes at Cambridge University]. But Heads of Houses are angry. William Whewell's responses are 'arbitrary and despotic.' Extreme agitation at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel296

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 May 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.45
Summary:

A letter to accompany Frederick McCoy's 1855-3-9, indicating that it seems appropriate to pay the bills. One of the professors just appointed has died in Australia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel298

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.49
Summary:

Will communicate with the other committee members about a replacement for the Melbourne University professor who died [see JH's 1855-5-23].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel299

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.50
Summary:

About transferring the Melbourne University funds into a trust account managed by the rest of the committee [see JH's 1855-3-23].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6545

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.291
Summary:

Regarding the non-arrival of his star catalogues. Thinks that four volumes will finish the observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6786

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.103
Summary:

Results of observations using the G. B. Amici micrometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1082

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6th May 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/4/1464-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1083

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 6th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/217, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1084

From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Mai 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/16, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1085

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
13th May
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/601, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1086

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sunday May 20th /55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/218, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1087

From:
Friedrich Ludwig Stegmann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Mai 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/210, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1088

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21st May 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/290, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1089

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/602, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1090

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/601a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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