From G. H. Darwin [23 November 1877]
Summary
Asks CD if he would like to sign GHD’s Royal Society proposal for membership.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11249 |
To G. H. Darwin 24 November [1877]
Summary
Thinks he had better not sign GHD’s paper [as a candidate for F.R.S.], since he obviously is no judge of the quality of his work.
Asks if Thomson did not overlook heat generated by the crushing and folding of strata during the refrigeration of the globe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11251 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To G. H. Darwin 24 November [1877] …
- … this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, [23 November 1877] . See letter from G. H. …
- … Darwin, [23 November 1877] . George had asked whether CD would like to sign his proposal form for fellowship of the Royal Society of London . (CD did not sign it: Royal Society archives, EC/1879/13. ) James Whitbread Lee Glaisher . See letter from G. H. …
To G. H. Darwin [23 April 1877]
Summary
"Frank has sent the cards here."
| 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 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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To G. H. Darwin 21 November [1877] …
- … Darwin 1878 , and letter from G. H. Darwin, [28 October 1877] . …
- … Darwin’s diary, Francis Galton visited Down on Saturday 24 November 1877; she did not mention George’s coming that weekend. George was working on the state of the interior of the earth; see G. H. …
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 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From G. H. Darwin [28 October 1877] …
- … letter from Horace Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 24–5 October 1877 (DAR 258: 864)). CD and Emma …
- … Darwin 1878 ; see letter to G. H. Darwin, 18 [October 1877] and n. 3). Henrietta Emma …
- … 1877, expressing his preference for the degree ceremony to take place on 6 December. George Darwin was continuing to work on his paper on the supposition that that the earth was composed of a viscous or imperfectly elastic matter, and thus subject to tides in its interior ( G. H. …
To G. H. Darwin [after 28 October 1877]
Summary
Has given dates [for the Cambridge University honorary degree] to the Vice-Chancellor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11216 |
From G. H. Darwin 22 November 1877
Summary
Will look for worm-castings in the cloisters,
and will send CD items from the Cambridge papers on the honorary degree.
Has hit on a possible fallacy in W. Thomson’s theory of secular cooling of the earth.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11247 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From G. H. Darwin 22 November 1877 …
- … See letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] and n. 2. On the construction of the Wren …
- … Appendix II)). See letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] and n. 3. The physicist …
- … 1877 ( London, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1921 (Ancestry.com, accessed 24 May 2016)). Henrietta Emma Litchfield . John Evans’s letter to George has not been found; James Geikie’s letter of 20 November 1877, thanking George for a copy of his paper ‘On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis of rotation’ ( G. H. Darwin …
- … 1877): 220–2). Pierre Simon Laplace , John Couch Adams , and Charles Eugène Delaunay had also worked on the problem; see Laplace 1788 , Adams 1853 , and Delaunay 1859 . On the problem, and George’s contribution (e.g. G. H. Darwin …
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 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 October 1877
Summary
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11200 |
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To G. H. Darwin 18 [October 1877] …
- … this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, 23 October 1877 . James Clerk Maxwell was a …
- … G. H. Darwin 1878 ). See also Smith and Wise 1989, pp. 597–602. He possibly mentioned his work in a letter that has not been found. According to his journal, CD spent the latter part of 1877 …
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 15 June [1877]
Summary
Had no intention of pressing CD over Madame Michelet’s fundraising for her husband’s tomb.
| Author: | Frederic Harrison |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251: 1915 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11001F |
From G. H. Darwin [before 28 May 1877]
Summary
Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10958 |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin 1876b and 1877) and was working on an explanation of tides based on his treatment of the earth as a viscous rather than elastic body ( G. H. …
- … 1877] (DAR 219.9: 148)). In his paper on marriages between cousins, George Howard Darwin had concluded that offspring of such marriages suffered from slightly lower vitality, but added that the sample size was too small to yield satisfactory statistics ( G. H. …
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 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 May 1877
Summary
Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10974 |
To G. H. Darwin [3 June 1877]
Summary
Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [3 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10946 |
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 13 June [1877]
Summary
The widow of Jules Michelet is seeking donations towards his tomb, and says that he was a great admirer of CD.
| Author: | Frederic Harrison |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251: 1914 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10999F |
To T. M. Reade 12 October [1877]
Summary
CD is occupied with vegetable physiology.
Prefers to read MS when published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11180 |
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 |
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| Harrison, Frederic | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (27) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Harrison, Frederic | (3) |
