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Tyndall0927

From:
Charles Cumming
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 1st. /54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/1/260, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel12449

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Peacock
Date:
1854-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.306a
Summary:

Writes to ask GP to help publicize the need for candidates for professorships at the University of Melbourne.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1568

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
1 May [1854]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:

About share transfers, involving JW as a trustee of CD/Emma marriage trust.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall0928

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
2nd. May 1854.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/338, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2826a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ellen Barnard
Date:
2 May 1854
Source of text:
WIHM MS 7844/66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

HENSLOW-1275

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Charles R. Bree
Date:
3 May 1854
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday2827

From:
Joseph Ketley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 May 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13152

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[3 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.20; Reel 1055
Summary:

Proposes changes in dies for New Brunswick coins. Awaits Treasury authorization to announce contract with coin suppliers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday2828

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 May 1854
Source of text:
UB MS NS 412
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13153

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[4 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.21; Reel 1055
Summary:

Appointed E. L. J. Ridsdale, recommended to JH by College of Science on Jermyn Street, to replace Charles Sterry as junior clerk of Mint office and assistant assayer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13461

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mint Staff
Date:
[4 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0694; Reel 1089
Summary:

Announces appointment of Charles Elouis to superintendent of bullion office at Sydney branch mint, effective 1 May 1854. R. F. Suft will replace Elouis as registrar and accountant in Mint office. Charles Sterry will take Suft's former position as senior clerk. E. L. J. Ridsdale is appointed, subject to [one year] probation, to junior clerk and assistant assayer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel649

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.41
Summary:

Of the health of [Mr.] Knowles [servant], a visit to the Baden Powells by JH, and family financial arrangements.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000820

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Tite
Date:
6 May 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/126, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel648

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isabella Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.40
Summary:

Tells a silly story, and then complains about Charles Babbage stopping by and talking about CB's lighthouse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0929

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May, 6 '55.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/606, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
6 May 1854
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (1909: 9)
Summary:

CD expresses his inability to accept the view that the Hippuritidae are in any way a connecting link between the oysters and the barnacles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

Faraday2829

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Manby
Date:
8 May 1854
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel641

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.39
Summary:

Concerned about the state of health of Knowles [a servant], and how to deal with him and his wife; comments on the educational prospects of son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9711

From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.59
Summary:

The Kew Committee has requested estimates from Thomas Cook[e] and Andrew Ross for an instrument to carry out JH's suggestions. Is grateful for these suggestions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

WCP4259

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Samuel] [Stevens]
Date:
9 May 1854
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1854). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 9 May 1854, Singapore]. Zoologist : 12 (142): 4395-4397
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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