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
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
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
Text Online
From:
George Wilson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 February 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Text Online
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
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
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
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
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- Brigitte Stenhouse2
- Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project55
- Darwin Correspondence Project189
- Darwin Family Letters2
- Faraday Project147
- Henslow Correspondence Project50
- Hooker Project10
- John Herschel Project179
- Royal Society8
- The Linnean Society of London20
- Tyndall Project155