From G. H. Darwin 9 October 1880
Trin. Coll
Sat. Oct. 9. 80
Dear Father,
I am a little surprized at the lime fruits making such good ripple marks.1 I am having a trough made to try experiments with & then hope I shall find out something. Young Sedgwick will be elected Nat. Sci. fellow today tho’ it is not generally known yet.2 No time for more
G H Darwin
I’ve sent off my 1st. revise & the thing will be published within a month I think3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin, George Howard. 1879b. On the secular changes in the elements of the orbit of a satellite revolving about a tidally distorted planet. [Read 18 December 1879.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 171 (1880): 713–891.
Summary
Is having a trough made to try experiments [on ripple-marks].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12747
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 86
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12747,” accessed on 16 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12747.xml