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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 837
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 838
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
3 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 839
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 March 1866
Source of text:
DAR 258: 834
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Apr 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 99
Summary:
Enquires about the relationship of English grains to French milligrammes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 1
Summary:
Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 May [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 2
Summary:
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 3
Summary:
Congratulations on GHD’s brilliant tripos success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 4
Summary:
John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 6
Summary:
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.; Darwin, W. E.; Darwin, Francis
Date:
[27 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 84
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters