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Herschel13333

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0544.3; Reel 1053
Summary:

Expects daughter Caroline and husband and Eneas Mackintosh on Sunday. Must hire seven supervisors and 28 workers at Mint. Bank of England requires £600,000 per week of new coins. Family finances. Engraving of William Whewell is 'wretched.' Mr. Dudgeon visited yesterday to learn JH's new photographic method of coating glass with gluten and acetic acid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0709

From:
T. C. Higginson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 28th 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/599, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-001503

From:
Thomas Bell
To:
Thomas Bell, Secretary, Southern Telescope Committee
Date:
29 January 1853
Source of text:
MM/19/107, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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FVM-53-01-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
29 January 1853
Source of text:
B53/1036, unit 408, VPRS 3991 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-1499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
29 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 82)
Summary:

Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.

He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1498

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

Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

Faraday2632

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
29 January 1853
Source of text:
APS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall0710

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
29 Jany 1853
Source of text:
Mss.Ms.Coll.200; 4:2632, APS; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2631

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
29 January 1853
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2633

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 January 1853
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall0711

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
5:30, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1499F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
31 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asks if Thomas Salt can dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury Street mortgage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel304

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.59.184
Summary:

A note accompanying a book of observations being forwarded to JH by GA, and coming from Georgetown, USA.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel494

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[1 February 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.28
Summary:

Argues for the decimalization of all weights, measures, and money [see JH's 1852-10-26].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14544

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.4; Reel 1093
Summary:

Prefers that Henry Finch and Mr. Hill, Jr. be assigned to temporary positions in Mint. Send official letter to Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon] about this. That leaves one patronage appointment for W. G. Hayter to fill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14545

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
2] February [1853
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.5; Reel 1093
Summary:

Review enclosed letter from JH to Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon]. Henry Finch seems willing to accept position in reorganized Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14546

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Return George Arbuthnot's final memorandum on Australian mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-53-02-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
3 February 1853
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 135
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel13194

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Wilson
Date:
[3 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0502; Reel 1055
Summary:

Reports average output of gold coinage up to 'these changes in the production of Gold.' Demand is now increasing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-M53-02-04

From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
4 February 1853
Source of text:
Archiv der Universität, Vienna
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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