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DCP-LETT-10489

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 52
Summary:

Writes of his "geo-mathematical" work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10493

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 May [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 53
Summary:

Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10519

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 53
Summary:

His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.

Sends Cambridge news.

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DCP-LETT-10522

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 54
Summary:

Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.

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DCP-LETT-10528

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 54
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.

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DCP-LETT-10530

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[4 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 55
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10541

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 55
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.

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DCP-LETT-10561

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 July [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 56
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.

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DCP-LETT-10647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 57
Summary:

Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10689

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27? Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 56
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].

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DCP-LETT-10933

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 57
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!"

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10937

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 58
Summary:

"Frank has sent the cards here."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10946

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 59
Summary:

Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10958

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 58
Summary:

Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10974

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 59
Summary:

Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10976

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 May [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A26)
Summary:

Has not yet received letter [about Cambridge honorary LL.D.].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10999F

From:
Frederic Harrison
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1914
Summary:

The widow of Jules Michelet is seeking donations towards his tomb, and says that he was a great admirer of CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11001F

From:
Frederic Harrison
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1915
Summary:

Had no intention of pressing CD over Madame Michelet’s fundraising for her husband’s tomb.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11008

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
18 [Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 61–2
Summary:

Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?

Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11020F

From:
Frederic Harrison
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1916
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s £5 contribution towards Jules Michelet’s tomb.

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