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From:
Charles Cumming
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 1st. /54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/1/260, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Peacock
Date:
1854-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.306a
Summary:

Writes to ask GP to help publicize the need for candidates for professorships at the University of Melbourne.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
1 May [1854]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:

About share transfers, involving JW as a trustee of CD/Emma marriage trust.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
2nd. May 1854.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/338, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[3 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.20; Reel 1055
Summary:

Proposes changes in dies for New Brunswick coins. Awaits Treasury authorization to announce contract with coin suppliers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[4 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.21; Reel 1055
Summary:

Appointed E. L. J. Ridsdale, recommended to JH by College of Science on Jermyn Street, to replace Charles Sterry as junior clerk of Mint office and assistant assayer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mint Staff
Date:
[4 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0694; Reel 1089
Summary:

Announces appointment of Charles Elouis to superintendent of bullion office at Sydney branch mint, effective 1 May 1854. R. F. Suft will replace Elouis as registrar and accountant in Mint office. Charles Sterry will take Suft's former position as senior clerk. E. L. J. Ridsdale is appointed, subject to [one year] probation, to junior clerk and assistant assayer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.41
Summary:

Of the health of [Mr.] Knowles [servant], a visit to the Baden Powells by JH, and family financial arrangements.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Tite
Date:
6 May 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/126, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isabella Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.40
Summary:

Tells a silly story, and then complains about Charles Babbage stopping by and talking about CB's lighthouse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May, 6 '55.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/606, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
6 May 1854
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (1909: 9)
Summary:

CD expresses his inability to accept the view that the Hippuritidae are in any way a connecting link between the oysters and the barnacles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.39
Summary:

Concerned about the state of health of Knowles [a servant], and how to deal with him and his wife; comments on the educational prospects of son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.59
Summary:

The Kew Committee has requested estimates from Thomas Cook[e] and Andrew Ross for an instrument to carry out JH's suggestions. Is grateful for these suggestions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[10 May 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.41
Summary:

Is organizing a meeting to begin narrowing the field of candidates for the Melbourne University professorships [see JH's 1854-4-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
11 [May] 1854
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.63
Summary:

Recalls JH's predecessor [Isaac Newton] at Mint was also interested in Bernoulli's 'Isoperimetrical Problems.' HW plans paper on new expression for coefficients of differences of zero in self-repeating series.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Peter Riess
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Mai 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/27, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Sophia Beck?]
Date:
[11 May 1854]
Source of text:
WT 52792
Summary:

Has caught a bad cold and is unfit for human society, and so JH begs to be excused from the evening's social gathering.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Wolstenholme Ward
Date:
[12 May 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0490.1; Reel 1055
Summary:

Sends to EW official documents relating to new branch mint in Sydney, and copy of document regarding salvage of goods lost on ship Hannibal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 May 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.42
Summary:

As GA cannot attend meeting, JH seeks his opinions on certain questions [see GA's 1854-4-11].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project