Search: 1850-1859::1853::11 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 2140 of 84 items

From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Novemb | 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/4, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
7 November 1853
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3026
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 6.45
Summary:

Comments on the Crimean War and the reports of Russian successes against Turkey; JH gives his opinion that England is more American than it is European.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[7 November 1853]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/43
Summary:

May need WT's permission for the publication in a book on coinage of a photograph of JH prepared using WT's patented process.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[7 November 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0671; Reel 1089
Summary:

Cease coining florins and commence production of shillings and sixpence. [JH annotation: Saw Brande today and gave these instructions verbally.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ralph Bernal Osborne
Date:
7 November 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

After a necessary delay for “necessary preparations,” and publication of his “Travels in South America,” ARW is now ready to embark for Singapore, Batavia, or other parts of Eastern Archipelago as soon as passage becomes available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/633, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Charles La Trobe
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
9 November 1853
Source of text:
A249 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/633, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Friedrich Ludwig Stegmann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 Nov. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/209, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[9 November 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0672; Reel 1089
Summary:

Encloses letter, with JH's approval, from E. W. Ward at Sydney branch mint requesting authority to appoint W. S. Jevons and F. B. Miller as assayers, H. A. Severn and John MacCutcheon as clerks, two foremen of mechanics, and one engineer in Coining department.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
Date:
[9 November 1853]
Source of text:
Rosse Papers K2.3 (C: RS:HS 13.231bis & 23.141)
Summary:

Declines WP's request that JH write an obituary notice of François Arago. Agrees R.S.L. should publish such. Suggests [Charles] Wheatstone as author.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[9 November 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0107; Reel 1054
Summary:

Calls attention to tendency of recently cut silver coins to be too light in weight.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Thoby Prinsep
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.189
Summary:

Nominates Margaret Herschel's nephew for Addiscombe.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Thomas de la Beche
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 Nov. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/634, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 November 1853
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[10] November 1853
Source of text:
JHS 1.67
Summary:

Comments on son John and daughter Caroline; wants some material to deal with a possible infringement of W. H. Fox Talbot's patent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.326
Summary:

Has heard of a projected attack on the Henry Lawson instruments at the Observatory. Would like a line from JH on the value of the instruments. Has written to W. R. Dawes, [John?] Lee, and W. H. Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
7th Nov. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/577; MS JT/1/HTYP/282, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11th. Nov. 1853
Source of text:
HP 8:13; MS JT/1/TYP/9/2863, IC; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Document type
Transcription available