To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 May [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1876]
Summary
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10647 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin [23 April 1877]
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 [3 June 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10946 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 27 June [1877]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s £5 contribution towards Jules Michelet’s tomb.
Author: | Frederic Harrison |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 251: 1916 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11020F |
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 |
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