From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 March 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 858
Summary:
Cancelled: duplicate of FL-1392.xml.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[19 Aug 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 46
Summary:
Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 47
Summary:
Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 48
Summary:
Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.
Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.
Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[25 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 49
Summary:
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A94–5
Summary:
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 66
Summary:
Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.
Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 76
Summary:
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 50
Summary:
Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 52
Summary:
Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 51
Summary:
Is sure mathematical discussion of elevation of continents will be valued by geologists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 May [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 53
Summary:
Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 54
Summary:
Further comments on GHD’s work on the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis.
Frank [Francis Darwin] has made a fine zoological discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[4 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 55
Summary:
Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 July [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 56
Summary:
All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.
Gives news of his other sons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 57
Summary:
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 58
Summary:
"Frank has sent the cards here."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 59
Summary:
Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 May [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A26)
Summary:
Has not yet received letter [about Cambridge honorary LL.D.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic Harrison
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1914
Summary:
The widow of Jules Michelet is seeking donations towards his tomb, and says that he was a great admirer of CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project