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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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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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