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From G. H. Darwin   [23 January 1882]1

Trin Coll

Monday mg.

Dear Father

It is rather difficult to know wh. paper Kovalevsky wants to see as there are 5 papers on same subject, but I have sent a copy of the biggest wh. contains most about moon’s motion.2

The others are in Phil Trans for 79, 80, 81 & two short ones besides in Proceedings for those years3

Yours affec | G H Darwin

Footnotes

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 January 1882. In 1882, the Monday following 21 January was 23 January.
2
See letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 January 1882. Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky had requested George’s paper ‘about the moon’ in his letter to CD of 18 January [1882]. Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was interested in George’s work on the rotation of a viscous or elastic body. The longest of George’s papers was G. H. Darwin 1879b, published in 1880.
3
George is referring to the dates of publication of his papers in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. G. H. Darwin 1878b and G. H. Darwin 1878d were both published in 1879; G. H. Darwin 1881a was published in 1881. The shorter papers in the Proceedings were G. H. Darwin 1879a and G. H. Darwin 1880.

Bibliography

Darwin, George Howard. 1878b. On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus. [Read 23 May 1878.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 170 (1879): 1–35.

Darwin, George Howard. 1878e. Problems connected with the tides of a viscous spheroid. [Read 19 December 1878.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 170 (1879): 539–93.

Darwin, George Howard. 1879a. The determination of the secular effects of tidal friction by a graphical method. [Read 19 June 1879.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 29: 168–81.

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.

Darwin, George Howard. 1880. On the analytical expressions which give the history of a fluid planet of small viscosity, attended by a single satellite. [Read 18 March 1880.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 30 (1879–80): 255–78.

Darwin, George Howard. 1881a. On the tidal friction of a planet attended by several satellites, and on the evolution of the solar system. [Read 20 January 1881.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 172: 491–535.

Summary

Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13639
From
George Howard Darwin
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Trinity College, Cambridge
Source of text
DAR 210.2: 103
Physical description
ALS 1p

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13639,” accessed on 15 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13639.xml

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