From G. H. Darwin [after 28 March 1876]
Summary
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10242 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 8 January 1876]
Summary
Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 144–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10349 |
From G. H. Darwin 25 April 1876
Summary
Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10472 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 May 1876
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489 |
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 |
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 |
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 |