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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Grey
Date:
[27 December 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.130 (C: RS:HS 22.105 & Auckland Public Library)
Summary:

GG's book [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in the North-West and Western Australia, 2 vols. (London: Boone, 1841)] is creating a sensation in London. Pleased to learn from it of the range of mountains named after JH. Hopes GG will carry out some study into the Aboriginal dialects. Standards of weight and measure should be sent to all Colonies. Important to have a magnetic survey of all colonized and colonizable parts of Australia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Grey
Date:
[24 November 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0175; Reel 1054
Summary:

Requests permission to post £20,000 of JH's funds as security bond for JH's position as Master of Mint, rather than calling on JH's friends to act as surety. Will JH also need to pay 'Office Fee,' which Royal Commission of 1849 recommended be abolished?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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