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Faraday2881

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Vincenzo Flauti
Date:
Mid-August 1854
Source of text:
Rend.Soc.Reale Borbon.Accad.Sci., 1854, 3: 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
13 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Lucy T. Eisenberg (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks JAHdeB for his present of two volumes [Description des Entomostracés fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France et de la Belgique (1852) and "Les Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)]. CD was interested in the remarks on geographical distribution of the Entomostraca.

CD’s second volume for the Ray Society [Living Cirripedia] is finished but not yet published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9812

From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.147
Summary:

Soldiers are suffering in this unhealthy country for want of occupation. Hopes he has been able to lighten his duties at the Mint. Administration seems inefficient in the supply to the troops.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel264

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.66
Summary:

Agrees to meeting date [see JH's 1854-8-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel263

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[14 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.64
Summary:

Informs GA of the candidates for the Melbourne University professorships; wants to meet with the committee [see GA's 1854-8-12].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2878

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
15 August 1854
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/64.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2877

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
15 August 1854
Source of text:
Birmingham University Library MS L Adds 1083
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13165

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[15 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.33; Reel 1055
Summary:

Heavy demand for silver coins by Commissariat Service in Turkey. Mint supply was recently exhausted. Ask Treasury to borrow more from Bank [of England].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0962

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Augst 15th 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/203; MS JT/1/HTYP/356, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7860

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.64
Summary:

Cambridge [Philosophical] Society will publish HW's paper on self-repeating series. Suggests JH clarify some equations in new edition of [Examples of Finite Differences (1820)].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13471

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mint Staff]
Date:
[16 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0704; Reel 1089
Summary:

[Formal announcement] Assigns personnel from each department to order and to inspect coal deliveries for coming year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel266

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[16 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.67
Summary:

Some concern about a lack of communication from Melbourne University, especially about money [see JH's 1854-8-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13470

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[16 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0703; Reel 1089
Summary:

Earliest date for pyx trial will be November, leaving ample time to summon jury. Contact wardens soon. JH approves oath for jurymen, but suggests changes in wording.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1578A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
16 Aug [1854-8]
Source of text:
DAR 224
Summary:

Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel267

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.69
Summary:

Agrees that JH should write to the Melbourne University authorities and point out some concerns [see JH's 1854-8-16].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7861

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.65
Summary:

Additional suggestions for improving clarity of equations in new edition of JH's [Examples of Finite Differences (1820)].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel268

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.70
Summary:

Rumor has it that Australia is short of cash; can only wait and see [see GA's 1854-8-17].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel269

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.72
Summary:

Further interim arrangements for one of the Melbourne University professors [see GA's 1854-8-18]; comments about timing by electric telegraph.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel627

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.19
Summary:

Mostly about family health, bills, and the war in the Crimea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2879

From:
Vincenzo Flauti
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 August 1854
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.136
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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