From G. H. Darwin 20 August 1875
Summary
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10129 |
From G. H. Darwin 12 October 1875
Summary
Sends an article for CD’s opinion.
Has finished an account of the globes for the Philosophical Magazine ["On maps of the world", 50 (1875): 431–44].
His poor health has interfered with his pitch experiments.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10191 |
From G. H. Darwin [26 October 1875]
Summary
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10226 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 28 March 1876]
Summary
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Mar 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10242 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 8 January 1876]
Summary
Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Jan 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 144–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10349 |
From G. H. Darwin 25 April 1876
Summary
Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10472 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 May 1876
Summary
Writes of his "geo-mathematical" work.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489 |
From G. H. Darwin 31 May 1876
Summary
His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.
Sends Cambridge news.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10519 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 June 1876
Summary
Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10522 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 June 1876
Summary
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10541 |
From G. H. Darwin [27? November 1876]
Summary
Sends W. Thomson’s complimentary opinion of his paper "On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis" [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 271–312].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27? Nov 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10689 |
From G. H. Darwin 19 April 1877
Summary
Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10933 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 28 May 1877]
Summary
Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10958 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 May 1877
Summary
Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10974 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 October 1877
Summary
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11200 |
From G. H. Darwin [28 October 1877]
Summary
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11213 |
From G. H. Darwin 22 November 1877
Summary
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 |
From G. H. Darwin [23 November 1877]
Summary
Asks CD if he would like to sign GHD’s Royal Society proposal for membership.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11249 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 January 1878
Summary
Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11336 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 9 May 1878]
Summary
Recounts some figures relating deaf-mutism and consanguineous marriages.
GHD has failed to be elected to the Royal Society.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 9 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11498 |
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