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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-1?-1854?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.202, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
-1?-1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.208, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.209, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

A one page letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
[]-[]-[1854]
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.210-211, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley congratulating Berkeley on his son, Emeric Berkeley, passing his exams. Also mentions attending a Microscopical Society event and how Hugh Falconer is hoping to return from India next year and will recommend Thomas Thomson to replace him at the Calcutta Botanic Garden.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1854?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.132, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2ten Januar 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/40, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles W. Woolnough
Date:
2 January 1854
Source of text:
Woolnough (1881)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mint Staff
Date:
[2 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0676.1; Reel 1089
Summary:

Orders Stronghold no. 3 in Coining Department to be cleaned daily instead of weekly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Barton
Date:
[2 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0676.2; Reel 1089
Summary:

Make arrangements with Robert Mushet to transfer Mr. Hill Jr. to duty in Coining department under direction of W. T. Brande.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Ralph Heaton & Sons]
Date:
[3 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0677; Reel 1089
Summary:

Directions for dispatching copper coins to eleven branches of Provincial Bank of Ireland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.213
Summary:

Asks JH's opinion of an anonymous book [WW's Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay]. Describes it written 'very fairly' but as presenting views very different from JH's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Margaret Allen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 4th/54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/73, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry T. De La Beche
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 January 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.135
Summary:

Would he look at the accompanying work by O. P. A. P. Dufrénoy. Feels that Dufrénoy would advocate only that which was right.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Ellis
Date:
5 January 1854
Source of text:
BL add MS 65155, f.111
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[5 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0678.2; Reel 1089
Summary:

Reports total coinage from 1814 to 1853 and silver coinage from 1801 to 1815. Gives reasons why gold coins in circulation 'fall far short' of those minted. History of copper coinage since 1790.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles [Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[5 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.1; Reel 1055
Summary:

Comments on various kinds of scales for measuring distances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5] January [1854
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0596; Reel 1089
Summary:

Analysis of quantities of coins in circulation. Explains ways in which gold and silver are diverted from coins to other purposes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
6th. Jan. 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/303b, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[6 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0108.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

Differences between scales in Mint office and Rolling Room. Concern for gold wasted by abrasion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[7 January 1854]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 44377.25
Summary:

Forwards copies of new coins to be minted for Australia, and asks WG [Chancellor of the Exchequer] to seek the Queen's approval for them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project