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DCP-LETT-11249

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 63
Summary:

Asks CD if he would like to sign GHD’s Royal Society proposal for membership.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11336

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 65
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11498

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 66
Summary:

Recounts some figures relating deaf-mutism and consanguineous marriages.

GHD has failed to be elected to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11573

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 67
Summary:

Is frustrated to see, from a paragraph in Nature [18 (1878): 242], that Charles Lagrange has got hold of the same sort of ideas as he has.

Erasmus is unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11600

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 68
Summary:

Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11602

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.13: 14–15, DAR 210.2: 69
Summary:

Sends drawings of specimens [of Thalia] CD requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11722

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 70
Summary:

Recounts the experiments on Fechner’s law he has found in Helmholz; they are on the smallest perceptible differences of illumination. Describes how to test whether plants’ responses to lights are in accordance with it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11738

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 71, The Royal Society (RR/8/91)
Summary:

Encloses William Thomson’s report on GHD’s paper. Some of it was written in Rayleigh’s hand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11796

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 72
Summary:

Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11914

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 73
Summary:

Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].

Writes of his tour [in Algeria].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12026

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 74
Summary:

Encloses some references [missing] to information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12034

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 75
Summary:

Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].

Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12048

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 76
Summary:

Sends abstracts of more articles [on Dr Erasmus Darwin] from Monthly Magazine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12102

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[30 Apr 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 78
Summary:

Sends some papers on Erasmus Darwin for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12116

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 77
Summary:

Sends results of his researches on the Darwin family at the Record Office.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12145

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 79
Summary:

Has written to Col. J. L. Chester [genealogist] to ask whether he would like to see the deeds [for Darwin genealogy, see Emma Darwin 2: 237].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12154

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 80
Summary:

Sorry to hear Henrietta’s opinion of the [Erasmus Darwin] proofs. GHD did not think it dull. He makes some suggestions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12240

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 81
Summary:

Erasmus thinks CD should give a copy of Erasmus Darwin to Henry Parker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12510

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 82
Summary:

Writes on family matters and researches.

Mentions construction of a pendulum

and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12518

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 83
Summary:

Has sent off paper to the Royal Society

and begun work on a new problem which he feels contains the meaning of Bode’s Law, concerning the mean distances of the planets from the sun. There are mathematical difficulties, however, which he may be unable to surmount.

Will get to work on the pendulum next week.

Contributor:
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