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From G. H. Darwin   4 March 1880

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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

From G. H. Darwin   6 March 1880

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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

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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

From G. H. Darwin   [July 1880?]

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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

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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

From G. H. Darwin   9 October 1880

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Is having a trough made to try experiments [on ripple-marks].

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

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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

From the Darwin children   17 January 1880

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Send CD a present of a fur coat.

Author:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 99: 208
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12428