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From G. H. Darwin   3 March 1879

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Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].

Writes of his tour [in Algeria].

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11914

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  • Francis Darwin, 3 March [1879] and n. 3. John Ferguson McLennan spent winters in Algeria because of poor health; his wife

From G. H. Darwin   6 February 1874

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Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9268

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  • Darwin 1875a , pp.  165–9). Richard Strachey . Francis Galton . George refers to Elinor Colvile (the wife

From G. H. Darwin   22 November 1877

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Will look for worm-castings in the cloisters,

and will send CD items from the Cambridge papers on the honorary degree.

Has hit on a possible fallacy in W. Thomson’s theory of secular cooling of the earth.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11247

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  • Francis Darwins tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge ( Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Robert Burn, 2 December [1865] ). Henry Fawcett was professor of political economy at Cambridge; his wife
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