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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 118
Summary:

Thanks JDH for dedication of Himalayan journals. CD praises the work and suggests stylistic revisions.

Lyell’s remarks on lava beds in letter from Madeira are not original – they refer exclusively to Élie de Beaumont’s data.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
1854-3
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0686; Reel 1089
Summary:

In response to letter from Sir Emerson Tennant to Mr. Lawley, JH intends to apply for public pyx trial as soon as coining of gold is concluded.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.52
Summary:

Is looking forward anxiously to coming to Collingwood on Friday; the Mint had a surprise visit from the Queen this day.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0554.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Crediting F. R. Brande with five years of previous service does not conform to Treasury commissioners' intent at time Brande was offered new position in Mint. Hold to original schedule of salaries and promotions for Brande and Henry Finch.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Christian Ludwig Gerling
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
d. 2 Maerz 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/G/2, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Peter Brougham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.307
Summary:

Would like, if he can lay his hands on it, a paper of John Dalton's on the defect of vision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
C. T. von Kersten
Date:
[2 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0212; Reel 1054
Summary:

Object of CK's modified English alphabet is different from object intended by conference recently held at C. K. J. Bunsen's. Those of A. J. Ellis and Isaac Pitman have appeared in print and are favorably accepted; doubts that CK's characters would supplant them. See Bunsen regarding CK's universal alphabet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. James A. Gordon
Date:
[2 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23:145
Summary:

A letter of love and condolence to a woman and her husband, the latter being very near death.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0554.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

Now understands JH's reason for promoting F. R. Brande. Will now deal with cases of Henry Finch and James Wyon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George G. Waldegrave
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.365
Summary:

GW's cousin J. A. Gordon approaching death, but calm. GW going to Naish.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles [Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[3 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.12; Reel 1055
Summary:

Further discussion of salary for F. R. Brande after promotion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Peter Brougham
Date:
[3 March 1854]
Source of text:
Univ.Coll.London Brougham
Summary:

[Responding to HB's 1854-3-2], JH states that no manuscript accompanied the collection of colored silks sent to JH by John Dalton. Describes the collection and discusses 'idioptic vision.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George G. Waldegrave
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.366
Summary:

J. A. Gordon died quietly last night. Widow and Henrietta are thankful for JH's letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 March 54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/16, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Margaret Allen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 4th/54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/76, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0554.8; Reel 1093
Summary:

Forwards suggestion from CT's cousin, Ernest Perceval.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[8 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0108.6; Reel 1054
Summary:

Questions about WB's 1851 report on gas apparatuses in Mint, and feasibility of repairing versus removing them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 6.44b
Summary:

Comments on the health of MH and daughters Margaret Louisa and Francisca, and then JH complains of his own health problems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 119
Summary:

More praise for Himalayan journals.

How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?

Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.

Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
10] March [1854
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0554.9; Reel 1093
Summary:

Discourages suggestion to issue both milled and unmilled florins. This would confuse the public and promote counterfeiting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project