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Herschel11629

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[11 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0009; Reel 1054
Summary:

Chancellor of Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone] will arrange with Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple] for JH's retirement as Master of Mint. Thanks for GH's support against 'external influences' during JH's term.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1559

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[11 February 1855]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 43255.100
Summary:

Writes to inform GH that JH has seen the Chancellor of the Exchequer and tendered his resignation as Master of the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14583

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0555.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Call on CT when convenient.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2939

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 February 1855
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13174

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[13 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0485.6; Reel 1055
Summary:

Estimates expenses and problems in production of medals for Kaffir war veterans. Asks for authority to determine wages for workmen employed on Kaffir and Crimean medals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1043

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
HP 9:20, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2940

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 February 1855
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/89
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1044

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Wednesday night | 11 1/2 o'c
Source of text:
HP 1:333, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13035

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[15 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0448; Reel 1055
Summary:

Returns 'table.' Thank grandma for loan of it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1045

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Wynne
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
1854-5 [1951], House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2941

From:
George Wilson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 February 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-001147

From:
Frederick William Beechey
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
19 February 1855
Source of text:
MM/17/12, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online

WCP3793

From:
James Brooke
To:
Charles Thomas Constantine Grant
Date:
[18-19 Feb. 1855]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S. 90
Summary:

James Brooke is expecting ARW to join a tour of western Sarawak which he is preparing (page 9) (he didn't). The rest of the letter relates to Grant (his family, past work and future plans as a government official) and Sarawak's political and domestic affairs.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Tyndall1046

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 19/55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/42, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-001510

From:
Warren de la Rue
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
19 February 1855
Source of text:
MM/19/114, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-1635

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 23, 372, 376)
Summary:

Sends specimens of sessile cirripedes for corroboration of their cementing apparatus.

Absence of anus in Brachiopoda and Alcippe cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14721

From:
Frederick Robert Brande and Henry Finch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0920; Reel 1083
Summary:

[Copy in JH's hand of memorial to Treasury from F. R. Brande and Henry Finch. JH marked this copy 'Strictly private....'] Recount improvements that FB and HF have made in Mint operations, but complain that they do not receive the consideration, encouragement, or salary that is due them. [After reading this memorial, JH opened his finished letter (also 21 Feb 1855) to Brande and added a P.S. that led Brande and Finch to withdraw this memorial.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1047

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Feb. 21st 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/594, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1636

From:
John Rae
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 249
Summary:

Comments on possibility of transport of seeds of Arctic plants by ice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12695

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[21 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0109.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Urgency for delivery of gold coins is reduced. Begin rolling and cutting silver bars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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