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FVM-54-05-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
10 May 1854
Source of text:
E54/4617, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel248

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[10 May 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.41
Summary:

Is organizing a meeting to begin narrowing the field of candidates for the Melbourne University professorships [see JH's 1854-4-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7859

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
11 [May] 1854
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.63
Summary:

Recalls JH's predecessor [Isaac Newton] at Mint was also interested in Bernoulli's 'Isoperimetrical Problems.' HW plans paper on new expression for coefficients of differences of zero in self-repeating series.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0930

From:
Peter Riess
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Mai 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/27, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel1902

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Sophia Beck?]
Date:
[11 May 1854]
Source of text:
WT 52792
Summary:

Has caught a bad cold and is unfit for human society, and so JH begs to be excused from the evening's social gathering.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2830

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 May 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/468, f.24-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-54-05-12

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 May 1854
Source of text:
No. 54/378, unit 1, p. 438, VPRS 3150 outward letter books to miscellaneous and Assay Master, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel13181

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Wolstenholme Ward
Date:
[12 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0490.1; Reel 1055
Summary:

Sends to EW official documents relating to new branch mint in Sydney, and copy of document regarding salvage of goods lost on ship Hannibal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel249

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 May 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.42
Summary:

As GA cannot attend meeting, JH seeks his opinions on certain questions [see GA's 1854-4-11].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel642

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
12 May [1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.38
Summary:

Talks about his loneliness, his wish to be at home with MH, and his concern about MH's contemplated trip to Aberdeenshire.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0931

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Mai.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/85; MS JT/1/TYP/1/2403-2405, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2831

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
13 May 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/468, f.26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel643

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.37
Summary:

Mostly about attending James Adam Gordon's funeral at Hadham in Hertfordshire.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2832

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
15 May 1854
Source of text:
UB MS NS 413
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10799

From:
Wilhelm Hansen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.153
Summary:

Has been commissioned by Guillaume Weber to present a paper about an instrument for measuring the earth's magnetism, to JH. Would like to present it personally; when can he call?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1221

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.49
Summary:

Asks JH to sign an affidavit that WT is the inventor of the calotype or talbotype as some are trying to break WT's patent hold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-54-05-16

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 May 1854
Source of text:
No. 1478, unit 20, p. 363, VPRS 3219 outward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday2833

From:
Joseph Toynbee
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 May 1854
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13155

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles [Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[16 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.23; Reel 1055
Summary:

Treasury has not yet confirmed appointment of E. L. J. Ridsdale as junior clerk and assistant assayer. Superannuation for J. French and S. Bradstock. Status of revised die for New Brunswick coins. Budget for new machinery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13154

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[16 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.22; Reel 1055
Summary:

Sent 27 cases of coins to [Sir William Reid], governor of Malta, via G. Baillie, agent for colonies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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