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Herschel13191

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Wilkins
Date:
[10 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0499; Reel 1055
Summary:

Sends cheque for £14, annual rent for land occupied by former Victualling office of Mint. Please send draft for 'conveyance.' JH will submit it to solicitor of Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2536

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[11 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.445 (C: RS:HS 23.146)
Summary:

Has signed George Wilson's certificate. Says William Whewell's book is 'clever but wrong.' Says moral and intellectual life is possible on Jupiter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0898

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March. 12th 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/194; MS JT/1/HTYP/325-325a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11416

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.327
Summary:

Comments on zodiacal light. Would like JH's opinion on his theory. Has been experimenting further with the propagation of plants with collodion. Money for the Henry Lawson Observatory has been subscribed and hopes soon to appoint trustees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1800

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0637.4 (C: RGO 6.341.53)
Summary:

Wants to meet with JH and W. H. Miller at the Exchequer to examine their standard equipment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0899

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/210, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0900

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday 15th March 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/588; MS JT/1/HTYP/326, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13145

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[15 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.14; Reel 1055
Summary:

Governor of Malta [Sir William Reid] requests £500 in copper coins. Mint does not have enough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel504

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[15 March 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.54 & 6.468.246
Summary:

Congratulates GA on the discovery of an 'old British encampment' [probably to do with British Roman battles]. Agrees to meeting time and place [see GA's 1854-3-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0901

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/324, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel12819

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Griffith George Lewis
Date:
[16 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0225; Reel 1054
Summary:

Unable to strike honorary medal from dies of Royal Military Academy. Under reformed Mint system, those dies are private property of engraver L. C. Wyon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0902

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
March 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/324, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel659

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.51
Summary:

Mostly about a Mrs. [J. A.] Gordon, who has suffered a personal loss [death of her husband], and a young man who seems to be lost.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0903

From:
Arthur Herbert Church
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 18, 1854
Source of text:
7:45, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel1801

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0637.5 (C: RGO 6.341.55)
Summary:

A note accompanying a copy of the second draft of the Standards Commission report [see GA's 1854-2-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/75)
Summary:

Discusses price of a farm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall0904

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 19th 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/195; MS JT/1/HTYP/327-327a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0905

From:
A Normandy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 20, 1854
Source of text:
7:45, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0906

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
21st. March 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/328, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13455

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[21 March 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0688; Reel 1089
Summary:

Formal testimonial to competence of J. L. Drury, temporary clerk in Mint office and melting department since 31 Jan. 1853.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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