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Herschel13672

From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0052; Reel 1087
Summary:

Final pay approved for JH. Thomas Graham has not yet received full authority [as JH's successor]. Production of Crimean Medal. No success in finding Benjamin Wyon's model of Kaffir Medal in War Department. Encloses reply from Philadelphia Mint regarding new weighing machine. Shipment of copper to Sydney branch mint. Cost of producing Kaffir ribbon. Wyon's dies are breaking.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10721

From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.74
Summary:

Sends a letter of praise for the family Herschel, including especially JH and his father, William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1082

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6th May 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/4/1464-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 90)
Summary:

William Yarrell has assured him that call ducks cross freely with common varieties. CD would like a seven-day duckling and an old one that dies a natural death.

CD is depressed – all his experiments are going wrong, "all nature is perverse and will not do as I wish it". Feels he is getting out of his depth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14196

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0422; Reel 1087
Summary:

Told John Romilly that JH cannot attend meeting to review amendments to Cambridge [University] bill. Large protest meeting by university residents yesterday. Believes Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] will abandon bill. GP's view of how amended bill should distribute authority at university.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 May [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.113)
Summary:

Mentions his paper ["Transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. Discusses ice-borne rock. Reference to unpublished paper on icebergs [?"Power of icebergs to make grooves", Collected papers 1: 252–5]. Remarks on scoring by icebergs. Comments on judgment of theories by Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1083

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 6th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/217, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13702

From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.27; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sign and return three enclosed letters from Cambridge University Commissioners to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple], John Russell, and Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] regarding amended Cambridge University bill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1084

From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Mai 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/16, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 131
Summary:

JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.

On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13780

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Henry Bateson]
Date:
[11 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0130.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Returns three letters [related to Cambridge University Commission], approved and signed. JH is 'utterly incapacitated from writing.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1085

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
13th May
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/601, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11303

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.207
Summary:

Was in London last week, but was unable to see JH as he had returned to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001572

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Robert Dunn
Date:
15 May 1855
Source of text:
MM/21/6, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-1681

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [May 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 147
Summary:

CD upset because salted seeds do not float.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13826

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Thomas Graham]
Date:
[16 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0173.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Encloses papers sent to JH from Treasury. R. F. Suft has responses from principal bankers in England; send copies of these at once to [James] Wilson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13824

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
G. Russell
Date:
[16 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0172.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Circular regarding coinage of florins, approved by W. E. Gladstone, plus enquiry sent to English bankers and JH's abstract of replies from bankers, are all stored at Mint. [James] Wilson may obtain copies there. Will forward GR's letter of 14 May 1855 to Mint and ask that these papers be located.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6545

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.291
Summary:

Regarding the non-arrival of his star catalogues. Thinks that four volumes will finish the observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1683

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 91)
Summary:

Asks WDF to induce schoolboys to collect eggs of lizards and snakes for him. He will see whether they float and stay alive on sea-water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1087

From:
Friedrich Ludwig Stegmann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Mai 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/210, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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