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Herschel14466

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0551.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

George Maule will help JH prepare draft of new organization for Mint to present to Privy Council. Inform Mint officers of their need to post security for their positions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000493

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
4 March 1851
Source of text:
MM/9/73, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-1393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Harris
Date:
4 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 233–4)
Summary:

Has finished the last proof of his monograph [Fossil Lepadidae] and returns WH’s specimens. Has named two new species from the collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14314

From:
Hermann Schlagintweit
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0478.1; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends regards from scientific men in Berlin and Munich, where HS and brother Adolph lectured after returning from England. Alexander Humboldt will write to Duke of Northumberland, as JH suggested, to request financial aid for HS's research. May Humboldt use JH's name in this appeal?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13630

From:
Jasper Atkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0015; Reel 1062
Summary:

Asks for appointment with JH tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1395

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
4 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks EL to request the Council [of the Ray Society] to permit him to have nine plates [for vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] instead of eight (of which two were to be in colour) and a tenth plate if he pays for it himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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