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Herschel14167

From:
Gilbert Farquhar Graeme Mathison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0392; Reel 1087
Summary:

Asks JH to endorse GM's enclosed memorial to Treasury. Did not include financial accounts, which are still incomplete. Encloses letters to JH and H. D. Harness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14479

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0551.16; Reel 1093
Summary:

Forwards decisive response by Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] to letter from [W. T.] Brande. CT will not get involved.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14480

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0551.17; Reel 1093
Summary:

Read enclosed memoranda, and inform CT whether JH was aware of these before JH made recommendations regarding compensation for Moneyers' tools.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14481

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0551.18; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH's explanation of discrepancy in allowance for repairs of [Moneyers'] machinery is satisfactory. Please return memoranda.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel476

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[27 September 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.5
Summary:

Some high quality sets of weights are becoming available. Should they be acquired for use with the standards work?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel483

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.7
Summary:

Is inquiring further into the usefulness of the weights [see JH's 1851-9-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7894

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.97
Summary:

Embroiled in Museum politics with Richard Owen over position and salaries. Sends copies of testimonials GW collected to take to Archbishop [of Canterbury, J. B. Sumner].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8111

From:
Elizabeth Ann Waterhouse
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1 September [1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.377
Summary:

Make JH aware that G. R. Waterhouse desires position at British Museum vacated by C. D. E. König's death. GW is trying to return quickly from Paris, but delay might suggest that GW is not interested.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8801

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[11 September 1851]
Source of text:
Science Museum Archives MS 1174
Summary:

Asks DB to write a paragraph explaining the novelty of the photographic process of '[Andrew?] Ross and [Thomas?] Thomson' as distinct from [Nicéphore] Niépce's albuminous process.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9696

From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 September 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.45
Summary:

Gives details of the new planet discovered 29 July. Proposes to call it Eunomia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1285

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 September 1851
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.55, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1286

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14?-9-1851
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.56, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall0533

From:
Hermann Knoblauch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Spt 20. 51.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/17, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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