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]
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
