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Herschel710

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 1.103
Summary:

Asks for personal linen to be sent; comments on a letter from daughter Margaret Louisa in Paris, and on the French and Americans generally.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001600

From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
John Peter Gassiot
Date:
3 November 1853
Source of text:
MM/21/40, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel12780

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Drury Harness
Date:
[3 November 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0185.4; Reel 1054
Summary:

Approves financial reports. Production of sovereigns and half sovereigns.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1539

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 186–7
Summary:

Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.

Honoured for Coral reefs

and Cirripedia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13129

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[4 November 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0483.20; Reel 1055
Summary:

Requests increase of wages for Mint employees, in preparation for resuming gold coinage on extensive scale.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0815

From:
William Francis
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/631, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 125
Summary:

Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.

Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0816

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/933; MS JT/1/HTYP/279, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0817

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6 Novbr 53
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/13, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel709

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[6 November 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 1.102
Summary:

A shipment of special china for MH has arrived from Paris; some news about daughter Caroline, and several stories JH heard at a literary society meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0819

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov 6th 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HH/183; MS JT/1/HTYP/280-81, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0818

From:
Tommy W. Grieve
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
November 6th. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/459, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel12374

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 November 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.231
Summary:

Would like JH to write the obituary of François Arago for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0820

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

Herschel975

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

Herschel8846

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

Herschel13437

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

Tyndall0821

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

Tyndall0822

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/633, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0823

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
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