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Herschel12784

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Goodenough Hayter
Date:
[8 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0188; Reel 1054
Summary:

Junior clerk C. B. Piers resigned from Mint. Recommends Henry Finch to succeed Piers. Recalls sacrifice made by Finch and F. R. Brande when Moneyers were disbanded. Asked Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon] that Mr. Hill Jr. be hired for temporary duty in Mint during coinage crisis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4835

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 February 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.129
Summary:

Comments on accidental burns to JH's daughter Amelia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel495

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 February 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.34
Summary:

Comments on GA's proposals about the storage of primary standards [see GA's 1853-2-7, i.e., RGO 6.341.30], and about secondary standards [see GA's 1853-2-7, i.e., RGO 6.341.31].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14740

From:
James A. Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10] February 1853
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0932; Reel 1083
Summary:

Testimonial to good character of Mr. Ottley Jr., to whose father JG delegated all JG's powers while on Antigua. Asks JH to assist young Ottley.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1791

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0636.4 (C: RGO 6.341.35)
Summary:

Raises a problem for the Standards Commission to consider, namely, that the Bank of England finds it difficult to deal with the decimalization of troy ounces [in the bullion trade] [see JH's 1853-2-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel546

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.349.11
Summary:

Is very much in favor of JH's coinage ideas [see JH's [1851]-1-4], but thinks they may be too bold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14263

From:
H. R. Reynolds
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0441; Reel 1093
Summary:

Encloses draft [contract] for coinage of copper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel547

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[14 February 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.349.14 & 6.341.37 (C: TxU:H/M-0036.4v)
Summary:

Talks about the means to introduce JH's radical reform ideas for coinage [see GA's 1853-2-12]; would like the Bank of England to go further in decimalizing weights of coins [see JH's 1853-2-11].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14687

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[14 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0636.4.2; Reel 1084
Summary:

Suggests regulations regarding bullion. Resolution of [Treasury] commissioners was forwarded to Sir Charles Wood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14789

From:
[John] M. Field
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1128.3 [p. 52]; Reel 1060
Summary:

Notes change of bars on pieces 26 and 27 prior to their arrival at assay office.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1792

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0636.5 (C: RGO 6.341.38)
Summary:

Believes that the increasing use of decimal weights should mean that no further evidence need be taken by the Standards Commission [see JH's 1853-2-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0712

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15th, Feb, 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/TYP/12/4022; 4:2638, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103)
Summary:

Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].

Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14547

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

Call on CT when convenient.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0713

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
16th Feb. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/559; JT/1/HTYP/227-228, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0714

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
16 Feb. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/TYP/12/4132; 4:2639, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel548

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[16 February 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.349.15 & 6.341.39
Summary:

Responds about a meeting date [see GA's 1853-2-15]; further thoughts on the introduction of a new coinage system [see JH's 1853-2-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0716

From:
George Wynne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17 Febr '53
Source of text:
MS JT/1/W/95, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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