From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 29
Summary:
Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 28
Summary:
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
4 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 16 October 1873, p. 505
Summary:
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 30
Summary:
Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].
Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 16 Oct 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 62
Summary:
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 65
Summary:
On bodies of varying elasticity bouncing off inclined planes [see 9096].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project