From G. H. Darwin to Nature 4 October [1873]
Summary
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 4 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 16 October 1873, p. 505 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9087 |
From G. H. Darwin to William Clowes & Sons 11 July 1875
Summary
Sends errata for Insectivorous plants 2d printing.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | William Clowes & Sons |
Date: | 11 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10056F |
From G. H. Darwin to William Clowes & Sons 17 July 1875
Summary
Errata for Insectivorous plants, 3d printing.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | William Clowes & Sons |
Date: | 17 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B21, B23, B50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10074F |
From G. H. Darwin 20 August 1875
Summary
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10129 |
From G. H. Darwin 12 October 1875
Summary
Sends an article for CD’s opinion.
Has finished an account of the globes for the Philosophical Magazine ["On maps of the world", 50 (1875): 431–44].
His poor health has interfered with his pitch experiments.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10191 |
From G. H. Darwin [26 October 1875]
Summary
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Oct 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10226 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 28 March 1876]
Summary
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10242 |
From G. H. Darwin to W. D. Whitney 21 December 1875
Summary
Müller has sent Chips [from a German workshop (1867–75)] and a boring defence against WDW’s attack. GHD feels he is maligned for using the weight of CD’s name in his Contemporary Review article. CD says Müller has misinterpreted a letter from CD as supporting him in his controversy with WDW.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
Date: | 21 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 631 1875 Dec. 18-24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10314 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 8 January 1876]
Summary
Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 144–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10349 |
From G. H. Darwin 25 April 1876
Summary
Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10472 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 May 1876
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489 |
From G. H. Darwin 31 May 1876
Summary
His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.
Sends Cambridge news.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10519 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 June 1876
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10522 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 June 1876
Summary
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10541 |
From G. H. Darwin [27? November 1876]
Summary
Sends W. Thomson’s complimentary opinion of his paper "On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis" [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 271–312].
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27? Nov 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10689 |
From G. H. Darwin 19 April 1877
Summary
Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10933 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 28 May 1877]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 May 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10958 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 May 1877
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10974 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 October 1877
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11200 |
From G. H. Darwin [28 October 1877]
Summary
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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