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Herschel11991

From:
François N. M. Moigno
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.353
Summary:

Thanks for his articles on the prediction of time; comments on it. Has been translating an article of John Tyndall.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0873

From:
James Craven
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27th Janaury 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3552-3554, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2781

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
27 January 1854
Source of text:
UB MS NS 409
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2780

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Julius Plücker
Date:
27 January 1854
Source of text:
NRCC ISTI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13448

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[27 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0681; Reel 1089
Summary:

Requests permission from Treasury to draw from Master's account at Bank [of England] to cover expenses that cannot be paid from depleted Exchequer account before 31 Mar., when Parliamentary grant for next fiscal year becomes available.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12717

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Miss Cornwallis
Date:
[27 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0132; Reel 1054 (C: RS:HS 23:142)
Summary:

Rapid changes in science leave JH unable to recommend newest things in organic chemistry. Suggests works by H. V. Regnault or Justus von Liebig, and Lyon Playfair's work on chemistry of foods. Notes error in Liebig's work on body chemistry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13648

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0031; Reel 1062
Summary:

Saw in the Times that JH is working on universal alphabet. Sends Wolfgang Kempelen's book (1791) on mechanism of speech. Speculates on machine that could produce phonetic sounds for universal language.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2783

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 January 1854
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday2782

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
Date:
28 January 1854
Source of text:
BPUG MS 2316, f.78-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall0874

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Janry 29th / 54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/190; MS JT/1/HTYP/306, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0876

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/586; MS JT/1/HTYP/307, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel12703

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Christian C. J.] Bunsen
Date:
[30 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0117 & -0018; Reel 1054
Summary:

Unable to attend today's conference on replacing present system of English writing with phonetic system such as 'Missionary Alphabet.' Hopes no final conclusions will be drawn without opportunity for further discussion. Gives JH's opinions and objections. Contrasts systems proposed by [Charles] Trevelyan, [J. B.] Gilchrist, and [Thomas] Young.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel678

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isabella Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.70
Summary:

Family news and comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0875

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/655, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7564

From:
John Banks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1854]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.81; Reel 9
Summary:

Requests donation of copy of JH's Cape Results to library of Mechanics Institution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
31 Jan [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 389)
Summary:

Declines the honour of writing a biography of Leopold von Buch, on grounds that he would not do it well; nor does he hold Buch so high as the world at large does.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12687

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[31 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0108.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Notes deficit in Coining Room between 23 and 28 Jan.. Following enquiries in December into similar shortages, JH now requires that WB submit written reports of daily accounts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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