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Herschel12618

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jasper Atkinson
Date:
[9 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0043; Reel 1054
Summary:

Assurance that JH's lack of response is due not to discourtesy but to lack of information.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1435

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
9 June [1851]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks for reference to article by Kölliker, ["Some observations on the structure of two new species of Hectocotyle", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1851): 9–22]. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13681

From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.6; Reel 1087
Summary:

Cambridge University Commissioners will meet on 17 June.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13963

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0256.5; Reel 1087
Summary:

Nothing to report from Treasury. Hopes JH is recovering from cold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12464

From:
Henry Pearse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.330
Summary:

Still more on the pension for Mary Maclear [see HP's 1851-2-19].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
13 June [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 44
Summary:

Thanks CSB for drawings of [cirripede] larva and for permission to cite unpublished paper ["On the development of the cirripedes", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 324–32]. Describes method of preserving specimens. Mentions Balanus common on tidal rocks at Tenby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Stewart Dismorr
Date:
13 June [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 387
Summary:

Suggests that JD consult with Edward Forbes about dredging.

Delighted he will look for fossil bones.

Asks him to look for Australian cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13964

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0256.6; Reel 1087
Summary:

Messrs. Rennie submitted estimate [for contract coinage work] yesterday that HH considers preposterous.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel545

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.349.9
Summary:

About a strange mixture of coinage in Prussia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
15 June [1851]
Source of text:
Gilman 1899, p. 310
Summary:

Thanks for note of 13 May and tracings of the "curious Bopyrid".

Is astonished at amount of work JDD does and frightened it will cause ill-health, such as CD has experienced.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13577

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1851]
Source of text:
Return, 38-9
Summary:

Treasury commissioners rejected bids from Mr. Nutting, George Rennie, and firm of Maudslay, Sons, & Field for contracts to coin gold, silver, and copper coins for Mint. JH should develop a plan for conducting coinage in some government agency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13965

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0256.7; Reel 1087
Summary:

Treasury rejected all bids [for contract coinage work] and called for establishing coining facilities within Mint. Sends copy of such plan that HH already prepared for JH's signature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13682

From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.7; Reel 1087
Summary:

Cambridge University Commissioners will meet on 11 July.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14625

From:
William Wyon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0610; Reel 1086
Summary:

Thanks for timely warning of date when dies for new florin will be needed. Confirms inscription that JH wants on florin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12619

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jasper Atkinson
Date:
[21 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0044; Reel 1054
Summary:

Mint must resume gold coinage and needs to take possession of Moneyers' equipment quickly. This will relieve Moneyers of additional responsibility.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
22 June [1851]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/4)
Summary:

Thanks AH for assistance and Joshua Alder for his kindness. Ibla specimens offered would not aid him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12916

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Rich
Date:
[23 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0330; Reel 1054
Summary:

Compensation for Henry Bingley [former Sovereign's Assay Master whose office was recently terminated]. Bingley refused offers of £500 and £750.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12917

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Rich
Date:
[23 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0331; Reel 1054
Summary:

Calculates budget for Mint salaries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5688

From:
George Phillips Bond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.177
Summary:

Unable to avail himself of JH's invitation. Thanks for his interest in American astronomy. Met U. J. J. Leverrier, J. B. Biot, and others since he has been in Paris.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1438

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
25 June [1851]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Asks to re-examine specimen of Scalpellum. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia] by Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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