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Herschel3484

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
[6 February 1855]
Source of text:
RS MM 19.113
Summary:

Discusses proposal to fix up the aerial telescope of Christiaan Huygens so as to compare his drawings of Saturn with observations made by contemporary observers using Huygens's telescope. Expresses skepticism about the project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1039

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 6th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/213, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1040

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday, written in a scamper | 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/867, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1041

From:
Viktor Hueter
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Februar 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/511, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-13870

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Feb – Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 5
Summary:

Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1093

From:
George Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0002; Reel 1062
Summary:

Received JH's letter of resignation during ministerial crisis but elected not to present it to Queen Victoria. Send it to GG's successor [H. J. Temple], together with testimony to merits of W. H. Barton as JH's successor. [JH's daughter] Caroline continues well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1042

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
February 1855
Source of text:
9 (1855), pp. 205-9, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11629

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[11 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0009; Reel 1054
Summary:

Chancellor of Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone] will arrange with Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple] for JH's retirement as Master of Mint. Thanks for GH's support against 'external influences' during JH's term.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1559

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[11 February 1855]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 43255.100
Summary:

Writes to inform GH that JH has seen the Chancellor of the Exchequer and tendered his resignation as Master of the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14583

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0555.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Call on CT when convenient.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13174

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[13 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0485.6; Reel 1055
Summary:

Estimates expenses and problems in production of medals for Kaffir war veterans. Asks for authority to determine wages for workmen employed on Kaffir and Crimean medals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1043

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
HP 9:20, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1044

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

Herschel13035

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

Tyndall1045

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

RS-MM-001147

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

Tyndall1046

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

RS-MM-001510

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

DCP-LETT-1635

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

Herschel14721

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
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