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DCP-LETT-10349

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Jan 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 144–5
Summary:

Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10242

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 50
Summary:

Personal news – is unwell.

Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10472

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 51
Summary:

Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10489

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 52
Summary:

Writes of his "geo-mathematical" work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10519

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 53
Summary:

His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.

Sends Cambridge news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10522

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 54
Summary:

Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10541

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 55
Summary:

Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10689

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27? Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 56
Summary:

Sends W. Thomson’s complimentary opinion of his paper "On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis" [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 271–312].

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