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From:
Stokes, G. G.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
9 August 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1908
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
CUL Manuscripts Department Add 7656: D71
Summary:
Notifies CD that information he [GGS] gave before on colours of peacock’s feathers was wrong [see 5891 et seq.] and refers CD to H. C. Sorby, who has worked on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 7656: D72)
Summary:
CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 99: 92–3
Summary:
The Royal Society have not accepted R. L. Tait’s paper on insectivorous plants; it will be returned to CD, who submitted it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A41–2
Summary:
The Society’s rejection of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes is a lesson which will last CD for his life. It is clear that he should not have sent it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
28 Apr 1878
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR8:107)
Summary:
Gives a referee’s report on Samuel Haughton’s paper ["Notes on physical geology, no. IV", read 4 Apr 1878; published as "Physical geology", Nature 18 (1878): 266–8]. Believes his estimate of geological time is extremely wild. The conclusion that the interval of time separating the Miocene from the present is greater than that between the commencement of the Secondary period and the Miocene "seems almost monstrous". Recommends the paper not be published in the Proceedings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
28 May 1879
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR8: 183)
Summary:
Reports on Joseph Prestwich’s paper, "On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber" [read 1 May 1879]. Strongly recommends that the paper be published in Philosophical Transactions [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–726].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project