From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 72
Summary:
Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.
Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.
Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.
Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.
Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.
Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.
Is glad book progresses; answers translation query.
Francis Darwin does not have time to lecture.
Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.