To G. G. Stokes 22 December 1875
Summary
CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 7656: D72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10316 |
To G. G. Stokes 21 April [1876]
Summary
The Society’s rejection of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes is a lesson which will last CD for his life. It is clear that he should not have sent it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A41–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10462 |
To G. G. Stokes 28 April 1878
Summary
Gives a referee’s report on Samuel Haughton’s paper ["Notes on physical geology, no. IV", read 4 Apr 1878; published as "Physical geology", Nature 18 (1878): 266–8]. Believes his estimate of geological time is extremely wild. The conclusion that the interval of time separating the Miocene from the present is greater than that between the commencement of the Secondary period and the Miocene "seems almost monstrous". Recommends the paper not be published in the Proceedings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR8:107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11488 |
To G. G. Stokes 28 May 1879
Summary
Reports on Joseph Prestwich’s paper, "On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber" [read 1 May 1879]. Strongly recommends that the paper be published in Philosophical Transactions [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–726].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 May 1879 |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR8: 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12066 |
To George Gabriel Stokes [12 February 1863?]
Summary
Thanks GGS for calculation [to determine the chances of the same peculiarity recurring in a family, see Variation 2: 5]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | [12 Feb 1863?] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 7656: D76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4085 |
To G. G. Stokes 5 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on Francis Darwin’s success in the tripos examinations at the university of Cambridge.
The king of Prussia has awarded him the order Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (17–18 October 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839H |
To George Gabriel Stokes 18 February [1868]
Summary
Wants to know how the colour of the eye of the peacock’s tail is produced, whether it depends upon colouring matter in the feathers or reflection, and whether any varying structural change will account for the series of colours surrounding it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | CUL (Add 7656: D73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5891 |
To G. G. Stokes 28 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks GGS for information on the peacock’s feathers. Asks whether the colour zones around the "eye" could result from varying the thickness of the film of colouring matter or whether it would require different kinds of colouring matter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | CUL (Add MS 7656: D74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5950 |
To G. G. Stokes 11 March [1868]
Summary
Sends GGS examples of feathers from an albino peacock and repeats his query about the zones of colour [see 5950].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | CUL (Add MS 7656: D75) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6003 |
From G. G. Stokes 20 December 1875
Summary
Notifies CD that information he [GGS] gave before on colours of peacock’s feathers was wrong [see 5891 et seq.] and refers CD to H. C. Sorby, who has worked on the subject.
Author: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | CUL Manuscripts Department Add 7656: D71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10310 |
From G. G. Stokes 14 April 1876
Summary
The Royal Society have not accepted R. L. Tait’s paper on insectivorous plants; it will be returned to CD, who submitted it.
Author: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 92–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10452 |
From G. G. Stokes 27 February 1868
Author: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 47–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5943 |
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