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From G. H. Darwin   9 October 1880

Trin. Coll

Sat. Oct. 9. 80

Dear Father,

I am a little surprized at the lime fruits making such good ripple marks.1 I am having a trough made to try experiments with & then hope I shall find out something. Young Sedgwick will be elected Nat. Sci. fellow today tho’ it is not generally known yet.2 No time for more

G H Darwin

I’ve sent off my 1st. revise & the thing will be published within a month I think3

Footnotes

2
Adam Sedgwick, great-nephew of the Cambridge professor of geology Adam Sedgwick. The younger Sedgwick was a zoologist.
3
George refers to his lengthy paper titled ‘On the secular changes in the elements of the orbit of a satellite revolving about a tidally distorted planet’, which had been read at the Royal Society of London in December 1879 (G. H. Darwin 1879b). The part of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which this paper was published was available on 6 November according to a notice in the Athenæum, 6 November 1880, p. 618.

Bibliography

Darwin, George Howard. 1879b. On the secular changes in the elements of the orbit of a satellite revolving about a tidally distorted planet. [Read 18 December 1879.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 171 (1880): 713–891.

Summary

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

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12747
From
George Howard Darwin
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Trinity College, Cambridge
Source of text
DAR 210.2: 86
Physical description
ALS 1p

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