From G. H. Darwin to Nature 4 October [1873]
Summary
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 4 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 16 October 1873, p. 505 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9087 |
From G. H. Darwin to William Clowes & Sons 11 July 1875
Summary
Sends errata for Insectivorous plants 2d printing.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | William Clowes & Sons |
Date: | 11 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10056F |
From G. H. Darwin to William Clowes & Sons 17 July 1875
Summary
Errata for Insectivorous plants, 3d printing.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | William Clowes & Sons |
Date: | 17 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B21, B23, B50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10074F |
To G. H. Darwin [19 August 1875]
Summary
Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [19 Aug 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10128 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 October [1875]
Summary
Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.
Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.
Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10196 |
To G. H. Darwin [25 October 1875]
Summary
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [25 Oct 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10223 |
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 to W. D. Whitney 21 December 1875
Summary
Müller has sent Chips [from a German workshop (1867–75)] and a boring defence against WDW’s attack. GHD feels he is maligned for using the weight of CD’s name in his Contemporary Review article. CD says Müller has misinterpreted a letter from CD as supporting him in his controversy with WDW.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
Date: | 21 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 631 1875 Dec. 18-24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10314 |
From Francis Galton to G. H. Darwin 22 December 1875
Summary
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10317 |
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 [after 25 February 1879]
Summary
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10342 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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