Chemical training needed for prospective assayers at Royal Mint. Workload of John Field, resident assayer, does not allow time to train apprentices.
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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.
Chemical training needed for prospective assayers at Royal Mint. Workload of John Field, resident assayer, does not allow time to train apprentices.
Comments on proposed gold coinage.
Needs more time to consider R. L. Sheil's proposal for Mint reforms.
Salaries for Chief and Assistant Coiners, if these appointments are accepted by Edward Enfield and Robert Rintoul, respectively.
JH needs someone in higher authority to admonish moneyers and to confirm Mint master's and deputy's right to enter any part of Mint.
Encloses JH's letter to commissioners of Treasury requesting official permission to meet Bank [of England's] demand for silver.
Difficulties in pay system for moneyers.
JH and H. D. Harness were deeply gratified by CT's note of [24 Oct.].
Analysis of copper alloy in sovereign coin.
Case of L. C. Wyon, promoted to chief engraver, is different from those of Henry Bingley, whose office [Queen's assay master] was abolished, and of Mr. Field, who succeeded J. M. Beckwith [as resident assayer].
JH and H. D. Harness will meet CT tomorrow as planned.
W. T. Brande is willing to give up professorship [of chemistry] at Royal Institution to accept combined duties of superintendent of coining and die departments.
Explains large disbursement of silver to Moneyers and to Melter.
Changes in engraving department are delayed by Benedetto Pistrucci's 'extreme reluctance' to alter title of Chief Medallist. Suggests offering Pistrucci official assurance of continued employment.
Explains difference in 'Estimates' for years 1850 and 1852.
Reports gold coin production.
Explains JH's recent absence. In Collingwood to visit seriously burned daughter [Amelia] and to send son [William] off to India.
Custom House authorities want return of two clerks loaned to Mint. W. T. Brande chose Mr. Harding as replacement clerk. JH does not believe that Harding will work out. John Beckwith claims new record this week for number of assays.
Wages for Henry Finch's temporary services.
Returns letters respecting [John] Goldsmith [Board of Works in Ireland], who has not yet appeared. Comments on colonial coins.