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Tyndall0485

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
May 23rd
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/902, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel9184

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[23 May 1851]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20787 (C: RS:HS 23.201)
Summary:

'[J. R.] Hind and [George] Bishop are delighted with your name Eirene (vulgo Irene) for the new planet[oid]....'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0487

From:
Alexander Humboldt
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/6/59, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0486

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Alexander Humboldt
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/6/59, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1428F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
25 May [1851]
Source of text:
Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209)
Summary:

Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0488

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 25th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/145, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel9695

From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.44
Summary:

Announcing his discovery of another new planet. Gives readings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Ball
Date:
26 May [1851]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows’ Papers 54.ii)
Summary:

Obliged for letter about cirripedes attached to turtles’ backs. Genus is Chelonobia, Leach. Cirripedes do not penetrate skin, but surrounding tissue grows up around them.

Asks RB to send S. American Balanus. Already has specimens from Irish coast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10948

From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.292
Summary:

Has purchased a pendulum from London and would like JH's permission to suspend it in his barn. Was not entirely satisfied with the experiment at the Polytechnic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13955

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0255.4; Reel 1087
Summary:

Silver was purchased for Mint on basis of [P. N.] Johnson's assay. Such purchases usually require assay by Henry Bingley. Records show that Bingley entered Mint in 1820.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2427

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 May 1851
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, pp.4006-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Tyndall0489

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26th May 1851
Source of text:
MS JT/TYP/12/4006-4008, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2428

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 May 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13956

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0255.5; Reel 1087
Summary:

[Joshua] Field appears satisfied with Mint contract.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13382

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Henry Bingley]
Date:
[27 May 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0615 & L-0648; Reel 1089
Summary:

Please clarify [HB]'s claim for compensation by distinguishing income derived from bullion assays for coinage and that for general market. By whose authority were constructed those stables and coach house for which [HB] claims compensation?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3239

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
R. L. Longbottom
Date:
[27 May 1851]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Regrets not having had time to examine George Cayley's views on figure of the Earth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6421

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.189
Summary:

Sending a copy of the 3rd edition of his treatise [Principles of General and Comparative Physiology]. Points out differences in the editions and draws attention to some novelties.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12617

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jasper Atkinson
Date:
[28 May 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0042; Reel 1054
Summary:

Does not yet have word from government regarding claims for compensation made by Company of Moneyers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13739

From:
Henry Bingley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0095; Reel 1087
Summary:

There are no records comparing private and official assays performed at Mint. History of coach house and stable now in HB's possession.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13957

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0255.6; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sends document from Maudslay and Field for JH to examine and forward to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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