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DCP-LETT-1452

From:
John Gwyn Jeffreys
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1851
Source of text:
D. Gwyn Jeffreys (private collection)
Summary:

Has sent CD some cirripedes and notes which he hopes will be of use. Gives details of occurrence and source of some of the specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0526

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
Sunday morng
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, StBPL T&F
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13417

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[8 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0651; Reel 1089
Summary:

Approves of [?]'s memorial to Treasury, but returns it to [?] for minor corrections before forwarding it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
9 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Thanks him for letter and Balanus specimen.

Acasta is curious; may be a new genus.

Is sending copy [of Fossil Cirripedia 1]. Correcting proofs [of Living Cirripedia 1].

Mentions comment by Hermann Abich on JDD’s chapters on the Sandwich Islands [in Geology (1849)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13976

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0259.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Complains that H. W. Field seems to have forgotten that, as officer in new Mint, Field should be available whenever required.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
9 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Returns fossil cirripede specimens to JS and Forchhammer.

Sends copies [of Fossil Cirripedia] to them and to Sven Lovén.

Reading proofs [of Living Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14480

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0551.17; Reel 1093
Summary:

Read enclosed memoranda, and inform CT whether JH was aware of these before JH made recommendations regarding compensation for Moneyers' tools.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0527

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1851 September 10
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/27, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13743

From:
Henry Bingley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0099; Reel 1087
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13078

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[11 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0481.9; Reel 1055
Summary:

Proposes budget for repair of moneyers' machinery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8801

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[11 September 1851]
Source of text:
Science Museum Archives MS 1174
Summary:

Asks DB to write a paragraph explaining the novelty of the photographic process of '[Andrew?] Ross and [Thomas?] Thomson' as distinct from [Nicéphore] Niépce's albuminous process.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14481

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0551.18; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH's explanation of discrepancy in allowance for repairs of [Moneyers'] machinery is satisfactory. Please return memoranda.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0529

From:
James David Forbes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 Sept 1851
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/28, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel12677

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bingley
Date:
[12 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0098; Reel 1054
Summary:

Suggests how HB should request government compensation for HB's son for former services as probationer assayer and for loss of future employment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0532

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
13th Sept 1851
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/373.413, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0530

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
Saturday
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, StBPL T&F
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0531

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
13th Sept 1851
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/5/1534, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

JHC1286

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14?-9-1851
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.56, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel9696

From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 September 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.45
Summary:

Gives details of the new planet discovered 29 July. Proposes to call it Eunomia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2464

From:
John Barlow
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
15 September 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I038
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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