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From:
Henry Thomas de la Beche
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1st Dec. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/641, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/582; MS JT/1/HTYP/293, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[1 December 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0673; Reel 1089
Summary:

Forwards to Treasury commissioners JH's correspondence with managers and directors of Bank of Ireland and Provincial Bank of Ireland regarding introduction of new copper coin. Requests authorization to proceed with distribution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
2–3 Dec [1853]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66)
Summary:

Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Henry Thomas de la Beche
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/642, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Henry Thomas de la Beche
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/642, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 1.109
Summary:

Mostly about sick people—their daughter Caroline, Fanny Bailey, and James Adam Gordon; son John passed his entrance examination [to the Navy?], and JH is still worried about the financial arrangements [see JH's 1853-11-29].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Decr 4th 53
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/187, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Halford Jones and Robert Angus Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0719.1; Reel 1089
Summary:

[Form letter] Announces next meeting of Literary and Philosophical Society, with presentation by [Peter] Spence on atmospheric electricity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/583, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[5 December 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0483.21; Reel 1055
Summary:

Recommends increasing salaries of Mint officers assigned to Sydney, to match salary increases announced by governor of New South Wales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
6 Dec [1853]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.

Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.

Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.

Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/584; MS JT/1/HTYP/296, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
G. B.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0724; Reel 1089
Summary:

Instead of index of all printed papers relating to Mint requested by JH, GB suggests set of indexes from 1800 to 1852 by Mr. Hausard. [Note from 'm' to JH on verso: 'Have you not the "railiamutard" Indexes already at the Mint?']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Thursday. Noon
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/485; MS JT/1/HTYP/297, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.349.31
Summary:

Does not know of the details of French or American coinage, but Augustus de Morgan has undertaken to find someone to help JH with this problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
d. 10 Decemb | 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Sunday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/942, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.253
Summary:

Invitation to dinner for Friday next.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Dec. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2407-2408, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project