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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12519

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Würtenberger
Date:
6 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Bibliothek, Zürich (Würtenberger Nachlass Hs 709: 9)
Summary:

Thanks for LW’s work [Studien über die Stammesgeschichte der Ammoniten (1880)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
6 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 112
Summary:

Encloses check [cheque!?] for £50. James Caird will guarantee £75 and T. H. Farrer £25. Above gentlemen think JT should get report on his experiments from independent agriculturists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12521

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
6 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 113
Summary:

P.S. to letter posted that morning. James Caird cannot pledge £75. Erasmus Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood will subscribe. May write letter to the Times. Asks for report on experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12522

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 97
Summary:

Suggests Torbitt make a report on his progress so far.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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