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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Peter le Neve Foster
Date:
[25 January 1855]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Delcines invitation to chair Society of Arts meeting because of poor health; may attend as visitor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Charles Fox
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 January 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J[ames] Heaviside
Date:
[27 January 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.154
Summary:

Thanks for having been informed of the death of an acquaintance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
A. B. Orlebar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.183
Summary:

Has been nominated Professor of Maths at the Native College and is in charge of the Observatory, now being erected. Would welcome suggestions from JH as to observations that would be useful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 28th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/212, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
29th January 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/592, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Davy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 227
Summary:

Responds to CD’s letter. The ova of Salmonidae exposed to air, if kept moist, will stay alive up to 72 hours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 January 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 177
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[30 January 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.6
Summary:

Advises GS against spending £800 to verify the available drawings of Saturn; instead JH suggests alternative methods.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Brougham
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 ? 1855
Source of text:
MSB 13 / 411, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Emily Mary Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0526; Reel 1053
Summary:

Recalls asking [Richard] Jones years ago if JH should seek public office. Jones was horrified, but suggested mastership of Mint as only suitable position. After four years in office, JH longs to escape it and return to family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Thomas Boosey et al.
To:
Edinburgh Glasite Church
Date:
31 January and 4 February 1855
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0715; Reel 1089
Summary:

Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon] must first refer JH's resignation to Queen Victoria. [?] encouraged Aberdeen to do it quickly, while Aberdeen is still in office.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
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
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
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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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
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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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