To George Howard Darwin 6 February [1869]
Summary
John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5843 |
To James Croll 6 February [1869]
Summary
Consoling to CD that JC gives "a little more age to the world".
Cites article by Henry Moseley ["On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].
Mentions article by A. R. Clarke on shape of the globe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Croll |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6603 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 February 1869
Summary
Has inquired about magnetic storms. Any effect that could be produced by the sun’s energy in retarding the cooling of the earth would be utterly insignificant.
Tells of his visit to Eton.
Is uncertain about next steps to take for a legal career.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6604 |
From C. F. Claus 6 February 1869
Summary
Pleased by CD’s good opinion and offer to provide material. Discusses work he would do on cirripedes.
Moritz Wagner’s views on migration of species;
his doubts about Fritz Müller’s views on developmental stages of Crustacea.
| Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6605 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Claus, C. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Claus, C. F. | (1) |
| Croll, James | (1) |
