Submits E. W. Ward's report on feasibility of establishing branch mint in Sydney. Encourages Treasury to proceed with Ward's plan.
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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.
Submits E. W. Ward's report on feasibility of establishing branch mint in Sydney. Encourages Treasury to proceed with Ward's plan.
Recommends Mr. Aberdein as clerk and private secretary to Master of Mint. Suggests that Mr. Hill be promoted from temporary clerk to replace Aberdein in melting house.
[John] Goldsmith, temporarily assigned from Board of Works in Ireland to bookkeeper in coining department, is working out very well. Suggests offering Goldsmith permanent position and using him to train other accountants.
Responds to CT's request for opinions on establishing astronomical and meteorological observatory at Nottingham. Distinguishes roles of royal, public, and private observatories for astronomy, and how these differ from meteorological observatories.
Forwards letter from E. W. Ward to commissioners of Treasury, proposing that J. Triskett and ten royal engineers accompany Ward to Australia to supervise construction of branch mint in Sydney.
Requests increase of wages for Mint employees, in preparation for resuming gold coinage on extensive scale.
Recommends increasing salaries of Mint officers assigned to Sydney, to match salary increases announced by governor of New South Wales.
Forwards request for review of Charles Elouis's right to superannuation pay. Repeats JH's earlier request (18 Mar. 1852) that Master of Mint be officially named among government officers listed in Superannuation Act.
CT's memorandum on 'Superannuation Question.' JH argues that money or rights given to any Mint employee for his services should not be revocable but 'should be absolutely his property.'
Comments on which rights should be forfeited when public servants are dismissed.
Distance scales to be used on Ordnance Survey maps.
Requests permission to pay Mint expenses from special account until Parliamentary grant becomes 'available.'
Please confirm that duties of appointment, which JH and CT discussed today, will permit residing outside London.
E. W. Ward's assistant Mr. Watt, proposed supervisor of bullion office in Sydney mint, volunteered for military expedition to Constantinople. JH asks Treasury to choose replacement.
[Marked 'Private.'] List of Cambridge men that JH considers eligible to be moderators and examiners for Mathematical Tripos.
Proposes eliminating small annual sum paid for rent of Victualling office by making one payment for thirty-year lease. [JH note on verso: Calculations relating to 'State of Gold in Mint.']
Five-year apprenticeships of Henry Finch and F. R. Brande qualify them to succeed [William] Buckle in coining department. Salaries for Mint employees.
Has not yet shown to H. D. Harness the paper referred to in JH's note to CT yesterday.
Governor of Malta [Sir William Reid] requests £500 in copper coins. Mint does not have enough.
[Marked 'Extract.'] Asks Treasury to define position of J. [J. S.?] Wyon at Mint.