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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.

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DCP-LETT-12514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 92
Summary:

The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].

Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.

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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.

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