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From G. H. Darwin   14 February 1869

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Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].

Cambridge news.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6614

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  • letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 6 February [1869] and n.  2. George refers to Francis Darwin and Marlborough Robert Pryor . George refers to William Boyd Dawkins and Alfred Newton . …

From G. H. Darwin   14 December 1878

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Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Dec 1878
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11796

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  • Alfred Newton was professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Cambridge; Francis Darwin had become friends with Newton while he was a student at Cambridge. Newton had visited Down with Francis from 22 to 24 January 1870 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). No record of Newton’s visiting Down around this time has been found. Anthony Rich had decided to bequeath his property in the City of London to CD in recognition of CD’s contribution to science (see letter

From G. H. Darwin   [28 October 1877]

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Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.

Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Oct 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 60–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11213

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  • letter from Horace Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 24–5 October 1877 (DAR 258: 864)). CD and Emma Darwin visited Erasmus Alvey Darwin in London from 26 to 29 October 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Francis Darwin had become friends with Alfred Newton
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