Requests permission for Mr. Knoblauch and five friends to inspect Mint.
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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.
Requests permission for Mr. Knoblauch and five friends to inspect Mint.
Forwards decisive response by Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] to letter from [W. T.] Brande. CT will not get involved.
Complains that H. W. Field seems to have forgotten that, as officer in new Mint, Field should be available whenever required.
Read enclosed memoranda, and inform CT whether JH was aware of these before JH made recommendations regarding compensation for Moneyers' tools.
Has JH heard from C. E. Trevelyan regarding claim by HB's son for compensation? If not, HB asks JH to compensate HB's son for one and a half years of unpaid services at Mint.
JH's explanation of discrepancy in allowance for repairs of [Moneyers'] machinery is satisfactory. Please return memoranda.
Gives details of the new planet discovered 29 July. Proposes to call it Eunomia.
Hopes accompanying official letter is adequate.
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].
Treasury commissioners approve compensation claims for equipment belonging to company of Moneyers and to G. F. G. Mathison.
Runs daily Mint business so JH can turn attention to the Exhibition papers. Will propose to William Buckle that books in Coining department be incorporated into general records of Mint.
Treasury commissioners approve payment of £300 to son of Henry Bingley for work performed as probationary assayer.
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.
Is inquiring further into the usefulness of the weights [see JH's 1851-9-27].
Hears that JH is using his influence to obtain a transit circle for the Cape. Hopes the application will be successful. Comments on the siting of the instruments. Cape politics are deplorable. Kaffir war still continues and appears likely to be expensive.