From G. H. Darwin 4 March 1880
Summary
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12510 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 March 1880
Summary
Has sent off paper to the Royal Society
and begun work on a new problem which he feels contains the meaning of Bode’s Law, concerning the mean distances of the planets from the sun. There are mathematical difficulties, however, which he may be unable to surmount.
Will get to work on the pendulum next week.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12518 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 May 1880
Summary
Writes of a Mrs Noel, who is annoyed with CD’s neglect of Erasmus Darwin’s brother, W[illiam] A[lvey] D[arwin I], [in Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12617 |
From G. H. Darwin [July 1880?]
Summary
Unable to acquire pure trypsin. W. F. Kühne is probably the only man who had it. Will send an almost pure sample out of which A. S. Lea makes pancreatic ferment.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [July 1880?] |
Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12644 |
From G. H. Darwin 27 July 1880
Summary
Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 July 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 94; DAR 210.2: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12668 |
From G. H. Darwin 9 October 1880
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12747 |
From G. H. Darwin 19 November 1880
Summary
Comments on CD’s book [Movement in plants].
Continues with his experiments with ripple-marks.
Is in despair about his astronomy.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12828 |
From the Darwin children 17 January 1880
Author: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12428 |
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