To G. H. Darwin [19 August 1875]
Summary
Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [19 Aug 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10128 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 October [1875]
Summary
Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.
Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.
Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10196 |
To G. H. Darwin [25 October 1875]
Summary
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [25 Oct 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10223 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 4 September 1876]
Summary
Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.
Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10338 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 25 February 1879]
Summary
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10342 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 January [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10348 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Summary
Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10478 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10480 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 May [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 June [1876]
Summary
Further comments on GHD’s work on the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis.
Frank [Francis Darwin] has made a fine zoological discovery.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10528 |
To G. H. Darwin [4 June 1876]
Summary
Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [4 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10530 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 July [1876]
Summary
All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.
Gives news of his other sons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 July [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10561 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1876]
Summary
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10647 |
To G. H. Darwin [23 April 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [23 Apr 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10937 |
To G. H. Darwin [3 June 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10946 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1877]
Summary
Has not yet received letter [about Cambridge honorary LL.D.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 May [1877] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10976 |
To G. H. Darwin 18 [October 1877]
Summary
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 18 [Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11008 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 28 October 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11216 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 November [1877]
Summary
Asks GHD to determine whether there are worm-castings in cloisters of [Neville?] Court.
Enjoyed his visit to Cambridge. Asks for newspaper account of the LL.D.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11246 |
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