From G. H. Darwin [before 11 July 1878]1
6 Q. A. St | Cav. Sq.
Dear Father,
I have seen the Belgian Bulletin— it is only a short report of the referees on the paper. I can see that Lagrange (who they speak of as a young man) is tackling the subject in a fundamentally different way from me— in fact his work is very different but yet sufficiently on the same subject for me to be glad to finish off my work.2
I think from the way he is attacking it that my problem will be solved infinitely more precisely & thoroughly than his & I think it exceedingly unlikely that he will have found out all that I have done.
I daresay however he’ll find out some of what I miss. His work appears to be much more one of theoretical dynamics. I’m delighted at this.
Yrs affec | G H Darwin
Uncle Ras brisk3
Good acct. of At. Fanny4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lagrange, Charles. 1877–8. De l’origine et de l’établissement des mouvements astronomiques. 2 parts. [Read 13 October 1877 and 1 June 1878.] Mémoires couronnés et mémoires des savants étrangers publiés par L’Academie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique 42 (1879), no. 2 and no. 3.
Summary
Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11600
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 68
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11600,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11600.xml