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DCP-LETT-1554F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Summary:

Thanks for FG’s note and trouble in searching out pigeons.

Is obliged to FG for obtaining C. J. Andersson’s offer of information about breeds of cattle in South Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13175

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[22 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0485.7; Reel 1055
Summary:

Forwards to Treasury, without JH's approval, request by F. R. Brande and Henry Finch,junior clerks in Mint office, for higher salary. [JH note: Brande disclaimed knowledge of this request. Brande and Finch retracted it, but wanted to send another. JH refused.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1554G

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1855]
Source of text:
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Summary:

Sends on CD’s list of enquiries about native breeds of animals in South Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2942

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
23 February 1855
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11801

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.161
Summary:

Regrets to hear of the ill health of JH. Believes that a sea voyage to the Cape would work wonders. The transit circle is in full working order. Comments on some of the work connected with it. Has heard that an accident had occurred to William Parsons' (3rd Earl of Rosse) 6-foot speculum. No news of David Livingstone.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1381

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[25 February 1855]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H694
Summary:

Declines to serve on experimental committee for R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13869

From:
Thomas Graham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0218.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

TG volunteers to succeed JH as master of Mint if JH resigns. Willing to replace JH in summers when TG's college duties are suspended. [JH annotation to wife Margaret: '...there are greater fools in the world' than JH.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13620

From:
James J. Anderson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0005; Reel 1062
Summary:

Thanks for JH's letter to Mr. McCulloch on JA's behalf. Hopes for permanent appointment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-394

From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 February 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 298 & 298(ii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday2943

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 February 1855
Source of text:
UB MS NS 416
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1048

From:
George Wynne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27 Feb. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/1853, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13870

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Graham
Date:
[27 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0218.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Has no power to determine JH's successor to mastership of Mint. Make application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
28 Feb 1855
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, pp. 254–5
Summary:

Pleased to hear that SC is prospering.

News of FitzRoy, Sulivan and J. L. Stokes.

The Crimean War is badly mismanaged, but Englishmen are behaving nobly.

Wishes he knew what to do with his boys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1049

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
28th Feb. 1855
Source of text:
Frankland, 191, JRL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2944

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
28 February 1855
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 355-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1382

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[28 February 1855]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H695
Summary:

Agrees to help in other ways than as committee member [see JH's 1855-2-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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