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 |
To G. H. Darwin [1882?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [1882?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13590 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 January 1882
Summary
Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13631 |
From G. H. Darwin [22 January 1882]
Summary
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Jan 1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13636 |
From G. H. Darwin [23 January 1882]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Jan 1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13639 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 January 1882
Summary
Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.
Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13640 |
To G. H. Darwin 24 February [1882]
Summary
Has sent last week’s Nature wth J. S. Newberry’s paper ["Hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 357–8]. CD thinks Newberry is right. This week’s issue has a letter against Newberry by Charles Callaway ["Letters to the editor: hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 385].
The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a series by scientists in the Contemporary Review on what is known and what is theoretical in science. [The series appears to have begun with an article by Robert S. Ball, "The boundaries of astronomy", 41 (1882): 923–41]. CD was asked to participate, but refused.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13704 |
From W. D. Fox to [G. H. Darwin] [1875–80]
Summary
Sends date of his mother’s death – 7 Apr 1859.
Was completely mystified by conjuring performance of [John Nevil] Maskelyne.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [1875–80] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13810 |
From George Howard Darwin [28 November 1856]
Summary
Letter from school with instructions where to put away his belongings at home.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 251: 2222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2003F |
To George Howard Darwin 24 [February 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 [Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2420 |
From George Howard Darwin [12 June 1862]
Summary
Leonard Darwin has scarlet fever so GHD has said he should be sent home and has asked E. A. Williams to call at Down.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3598F |
From G. H. Darwin [after 5 August 1862]
Summary
Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 90.1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3671 |
From George Howard Darwin [before 11 May 1863]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 51: 6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3887 |
From G. H. Darwin [9–15 June 1863]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9–15 June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4209 |
To George Howard Darwin [after 5 April 1864?]
Summary
Enquires about the relationship of English grains to French milligrammes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 Apr 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4451F |
From G. H. Darwin [after 6 April 1864?]
Summary
Calculates the relationship between grains and milligrams; asks his mother for a fruit tart and twelve napkins.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 6 Apr 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4453F |
To George Howard Darwin [1866]
Summary
Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4961 |
To George Howard Darwin 27 May [1867]
Summary
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 May [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5553 |
From G. H. Darwin [3 June 1867]
Summary
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5561 |
To George Howard Darwin 24 January [1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5796 |
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