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 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12514 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 May [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619 |
To G. H. Darwin 11 June [1880?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 11 June [1880?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12628 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 28 July [1880]
Summary
Advises GHD on what to write if he is asked for a reference for Alfred Wrigley.
Thanks GHD for information about trypsin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 28 July [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12669 |
To G. H. Darwin 23 [August 1880]
Summary
Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.
Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 23 [Aug 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12697 |
To G. H. Darwin [before 9 October 1880]
Summary
Discusses how fruits of lime-trees arranged themselves in a ripple-like way on a flooded walk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 Oct 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12746 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 20 November [1880]
Summary
Glad GHD goes on with ripple-marks; if he makes out a theory of ripples, they might give important information about the most ancient deposits.
CD has been wonderfully glorified in the Times [review of Movement in plants, 20 Nov 1880].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12830 |
To G. H. Darwin 23 November [1880]
Summary
Discusses GHD’s ripple theory. Asks him how they are formed.
Delighted to hear that light is dawning in GHD’s eyes on the planetary system.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12844 |
To G. H. Darwin [27 November 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [27 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12865 |
To G. H. Darwin 9 December [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12902 |
To G. H. Darwin [before 25 October 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12961 |
To G. H. Darwin 20 January [1881]
Summary
[Ernst Krause’s] letter to Nature ["Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler", 23 (1881): 288] has been dispatched.
Gladstone has dated Wallace’s pension from last July, "which is splendid".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13019 |
To G. H. Darwin 27–8 February [1881]
Summary
Describes lecture at Royal Institution by J. S. Burdon Sanderson on movement of plants and animals; JSBS’s preliminary part was so long that he never got to the plants.
Comments on the triumph of the ladies in the voting at Cambridge.
Mentions F. Galton’s visit to Down, a call on the Huxleys, and a visit with the Duke of Argyll.
Tells a story about the absent-mindedness of Burdon Sanderson.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27–8 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13068 |
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