To G. H. Darwin [after 4 September 1876]
Summary
Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.
Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10338 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 January [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10348 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Summary
Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10478 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10480 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 May [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 June [1876]
Summary
Further comments on GHD’s work on the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis.
Frank [Francis Darwin] has made a fine zoological discovery.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10528 |
To G. H. Darwin [4 June 1876]
Summary
Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [4 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10530 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 July [1876]
Summary
All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.
Gives news of his other sons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 July [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10561 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1876]
Summary
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10647 |
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