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Herschel14704

From:
Caroline Emily Mary Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1855-2]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0792.1; Reel 1084
Summary:

Relates CH's and Arthur [Gordon?]'s conversation yesterday with Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon] on how to enable JH to resign without public 'mess.' Three weeks ago, Aberdeen would have accepted JH's resignation and appointed William Henry Barton as Master, but now Aberdeen's successor must decide.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel651

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isabella Herschel
Date:
1855-2
Source of text:
JHS 1.43
Summary:

Writes to answer a question about the expansion of water on freezing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel515

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 February 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.73
Summary:

Having been asked for copies of standards, it seems to JH that the Royal Mint is not the office to decide on such requests.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1551

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 251
Summary:

The only mainland vegetation he saw on Falkland Island shores were trees. Remembers no strange birds there, but on journey home saw a woodcock more than 500 miles from the nearest land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel516

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.75
Summary:

The requests should be made to the Exchequer office [see JH's 1855-2-2]; complains about the incompetence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1037

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
4th Feb. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/593, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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HENSLOW-1148

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 February 1855
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1038

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 5th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/30, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-001509

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
6 February 1855
Source of text:
MM/19/113, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday2936

From:
Joseph Antione Ferdinand Plateau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 February 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-001146

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
6 February 1855
Source of text:
MM/17/11, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel3484

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
[6 February 1855]
Source of text:
RS MM 19.113
Summary:

Discusses proposal to fix up the aerial telescope of Christiaan Huygens so as to compare his drawings of Saturn with observations made by contemporary observers using Huygens's telescope. Expresses skepticism about the project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1039

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 6th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/213, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2937

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 February 1855
Source of text:
RGO 6/470, f.57-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1040

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday, written in a scamper | 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/867, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1041

From:
Viktor Hueter
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Februar 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/511, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-13870

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Feb – Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 5
Summary:

Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1093

From:
George Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0002; Reel 1062
Summary:

Received JH's letter of resignation during ministerial crisis but elected not to present it to Queen Victoria. Send it to GG's successor [H. J. Temple], together with testimony to merits of W. H. Barton as JH's successor. [JH's daughter] Caroline continues well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2938

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
9 February 1855
Source of text:
RGO 6/470, f.59-60
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1042

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
February 1855
Source of text:
9 (1855), pp. 205-9, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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