From G. H. Darwin to Nature 4 October [1873]
Summary
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 4 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 16 October 1873, p. 505 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9087 |
From G. H. Darwin [1 October 1873]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8702 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 October 1873
Summary
Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].
Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9088 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 October [1873]
Summary
Asks GHD whether he can tell him what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to the horizon in order to let vertical rain rebound off as much as possible.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096 |
From G. H. Darwin 16 October 1873
Summary
On bodies of varying elasticity bouncing off inclined planes [see 9096].
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9097 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1873]
Summary
CD gives his criticisms of GHD’s essay on religion and the moral sense. Urges him to delay publishing for some months and then to consider whether it is new and important enough to counterbalance the effects of its publication. J. S. Mill would never have influenced the age as he has done had he not refrained from expressing his religious convictions. Cites John Morley’s Life of Voltaire [1872]: direct attacks produce little effect; real good comes from slow and silent side attacks. "My advice is to pause, pause, pause."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1:14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9105 |
To G. H. Darwin 24 [October 1873]
Summary
"It is a fearfully difficult moral problem about speaking out on religion, & I have never been able to make up my mind."
An Irishman, a "grand breeder" of short-horns, declared at lunch that CD’s books had been "a great help to [him] in breeding!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 [Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9111 |
From H. F. H. Elliot to G. H. Darwin [before 11 March 1873?]
Summary
Instinctive responses in animals.
Author: | Hugh Frederic Hislop Elliot |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Mar 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7422 |
To G. H. Darwin 22 January 1873
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8747 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1873]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8799 |
To G. H. Darwin [3 April 1873]
Summary
Anxious to have GHD come home because of his poor health. Recommends Huxley’s physician (Andrew Clark) – an advocate of milk diet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [3 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8839 |
From G. H. Darwin to John Tyndall [7 April 1873]
Summary
CD particularly wishes to see JT "On business not connected with himself" [the fund for Huxley’s holiday]. Asks whether CD may call that afternoon. GHD adds postscript saying CD very fatigued. He hopes JT can come to see CD instead, but he should not mention that GHD suggested it.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | [7 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 12 (EH 88205950) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8846 |
From G. H. Darwin 8 July 1873
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 55: 160–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8969 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 August [1873]
Summary
Thinks highly of GHD’s article [probably "On beneficial restrictions to liberty of marriage", Contemp. Rev. 22 (1873): 412–26]. A good omen for the future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8997 |
From G. H. Darwin to Richard Strachey [29 August 1873]
Summary
Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Strachey |
Date: | [29 Aug 1873] |
Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9031 |
From G. H. Darwin [25 September – 3 October 1873]
Summary
Criticises CD’s letter to Nature ["Complemental males in certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
On the elimination of useless parts.
GHD fails to see the point of CD’s use of the law of distribution about a mean.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Sept – 3 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.1: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9070 |
From G. H. Darwin [c. 16 October 1873?]
Summary
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 16 Oct 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9078 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 3 October 1873]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9084 |
To G. H. Darwin 3 October [1873]
Summary
CD thinks GHD’s letter is an excellent clarification [of CD’s conjectural view on the elimination of useless parts in species], but does not want to publish it as his [CD’s] own. Asks GHD to think carefully before he publishes it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9085 |
To G. H. Darwin 15 November [1873]
Summary
CD writes about organising a subscription for Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. Has drawn up a draft circular for naturalists to sign to show their support for the Station.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103A/1/1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9142 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Darwin, G. H. | (10) |
Elliot, H. F. H. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Nature | (1) |
Strachey, Richard | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (23) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Elliot, H. F. H. | (1) |
Nature | (1) |
Strachey, Richard | (1) |