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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[8 November 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 314
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Geikie, James
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 November 1877
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1905
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 64
Summary:
Asks GHD to determine whether there are worm-castings in cloisters of [Neville?] Court.
Enjoyed his visit to Cambridge. Asks for newspaper account of the LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 62
Summary:
Will look for worm-castings in the cloisters,
and will send CD items from the Cambridge papers on the honorary degree.
Has hit on a possible fallacy in W. Thomson’s theory of secular cooling of the earth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 63
Summary:
Asks CD if he would like to sign GHD’s Royal Society proposal for membership.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 65
Summary:
Thinks he had better not sign GHD’s paper [as a candidate for F.R.S.], since he obviously is no judge of the quality of his work.
Asks if Thomson did not overlook heat generated by the crushing and folding of strata during the refrigeration of the globe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Dew-Smith, A. G.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
30 November 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 64
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters