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WCP3639

From:
Henry Unwin Addington
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
6 September 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

Relating postponement of ARW’s expedition until following November.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3641

From:
Henry Unwin Addington
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
27 September 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

ARW should inform when he intends to leave on his expedition; no vessels are scheduled for Singapore after November and passage may not then be available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel14565

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.25; Reel 1093
Summary:

Read enclosed draft of Treasury minutes to see if it correctly states JH's recommendations regarding signing of Mint checks. Please return CT's draft of minutes on Sydney branch mint. Encloses amusing letter from [W. N.] Forbes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14566

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.26; Reel 1093
Summary:

Encloses copy of act prohibiting defacing of coins. Advises JH to make use of Treasury solicitor in all legal matters affecting Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14567

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.27; Reel 1093
Summary:

Reply to enclosed 'Reference,' then return it to 'Memorialists' by 20 Sept. Papers must be sent to [C. Rivers] Wilson at Boulogne.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14568

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.28; Reel 1093
Summary:

Treasury commissioners seek JH's advice on feasibility of proposed observatory at Nottingham, to be funded by public money.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14569

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.29; Reel 1093
Summary:

Approves JH's recommendation of John Goldsmith to position of supernumerary clerk in Mint office. Notify Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2735

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 September 1853
Source of text:
UB MS NS 408
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Johnston
Date:
6 Sept 1853
Source of text:
DAR 146: 7
Summary:

Thanks for rare Balanus specimens. Asks about their source.

Comments on GJ’s book [Terra Lindisfarnensis (1853)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1530

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
6 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D18)
Summary:

Will give his support to a school for the poor to be a memorial to the late Sir John Lubbock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1365

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
10 [Sept 1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97)
Summary:

Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1532

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 150
Summary:

Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.

Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
27 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Admires JDD’s work on Crustacea, corals, and geology.

Commends young John Lubbock to his attention. Hopes JDD can give him encouragement; if he can resist his "great wealth, business, and rank, he may do good work in Natural History".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2727a

From:
Edward Newman
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 September 1853
Source of text:
PML Misc Ray
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-53-09-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Foster
Date:
5 September 1853
Source of text:
C53/8928, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria.The MS of 'Systematic Index of the plants of Victoria, collected from September 1852 til August 1853 and examined by Dr. Ferdinand Mueller, Gov. Botanist' is attached to this report, but not reproduced here. The report and the index were published in October 1853 (B53.10.01). Reprinted versions are listed in the Mueller bibliography file; an extensive summary was given by Helfft (1856). Several species names mentioned in this report were not published elsewhere, and are regarded as nomina nuda
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-53-09-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles La Trobe
Date:
19 September 1853
Source of text:
C53/9354, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel13628

From:
George Arbuthnot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 September 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0013; Reel 1062
Summary:

JH should receive authority soon for appointing John Goldsmith. George Rennie is angry that E. W. Ward gathered valuable information from Rennie regarding machinery for Sydney branch mint, but then gave contract to another manufacturer. Expect Treasury Board to ask JH for report on this. Perhaps Ward can 'pacify' Rennie.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel478

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.339.72
Summary:

Seeks instructions about return of the measures to the Royal Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel502

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.47
Summary:

Drafting the Standards Commission report is taking up all of GA's spare time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel480

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 September 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.339.82
Summary:

Writes to JH to re-arrange a time for a meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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