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Herschel1382

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[28 February 1855]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H695
Summary:

Agrees to help in other ways than as committee member [see JH's 1855-2-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13869

From:
Thomas Graham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0218.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

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.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13870

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Graham
Date:
[27 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0218.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Has no power to determine JH's successor to mastership of Mint. Make application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14583

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0555.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Call on CT when convenient.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14704

From:
Caroline Emily Mary Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1855-2]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0792.1; Reel 1084
Summary:

Relates CH's and Arthur [Gordon?]'s conversation yesterday with Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon] on how to enable JH to resign without public 'mess.' Three weeks ago, Aberdeen would have accepted JH's resignation and appointed William Henry Barton as Master, but now Aberdeen's successor must decide.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14721

From:
Frederick Robert Brande and Henry Finch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0920; Reel 1083
Summary:

[Copy in JH's hand of memorial to Treasury from F. R. Brande and Henry Finch. JH marked this copy 'Strictly private....'] Recount improvements that FB and HF have made in Mint operations, but complain that they do not receive the consideration, encouragement, or salary that is due them. [After reading this memorial, JH opened his finished letter (also 21 Feb 1855) to Brande and added a P.S. that led Brande and Finch to withdraw this memorial.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1559

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[11 February 1855]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 43255.100
Summary:

Writes to inform GH that JH has seen the Chancellor of the Exchequer and tendered his resignation as Master of the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3484

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
[6 February 1855]
Source of text:
RS MM 19.113
Summary:

Discusses proposal to fix up the aerial telescope of Christiaan Huygens so as to compare his drawings of Saturn with observations made by contemporary observers using Huygens's telescope. Expresses skepticism about the project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel515

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 February 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.73
Summary:

Having been asked for copies of standards, it seems to JH that the Royal Mint is not the office to decide on such requests.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel516

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.75
Summary:

The requests should be made to the Exchequer office [see JH's 1855-2-2]; complains about the incompetence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel651

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isabella Herschel
Date:
1855-2
Source of text:
JHS 1.43
Summary:

Writes to answer a question about the expansion of water on freezing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1037

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
4th Feb. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/593, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1038

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 5th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/30, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1039

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 6th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/213, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1040

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday, written in a scamper | 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/867, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1041

From:
Viktor Hueter
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Februar 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/511, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1042

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
February 1855
Source of text:
9 (1855), pp. 205-9, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1043

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
HP 9:20, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1044

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Wednesday night | 11 1/2 o'c
Source of text:
HP 1:333, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1045

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Wynne
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
1854-5 [1951], House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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