From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
William Clowes & Sons
Date:
11 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B24
Summary:
Sends errata for Insectivorous plants 2d printing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
William Clowes & Sons
Date:
17 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B21, B23, B50
Summary:
Errata for Insectivorous plants, 3d printing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 47
Summary:
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 48
Summary:
Sends an article for CD’s opinion.
Has finished an account of the globes for the Philosophical Magazine ["On maps of the world", 50 (1875): 431–44].
His poor health has interfered with his pitch experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 49
Summary:
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
21 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 631 1875 Dec. 18-24)
Summary:
Müller has sent Chips [from a German workshop (1867–75)] and a boring defence against WDW’s attack. GHD feels he is maligned for using the weight of CD’s name in his Contemporary Review article. CD says Müller has misinterpreted a letter from CD as supporting him in his controversy with WDW.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 57
Summary:
Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 58
Summary:
Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 59
Summary:
Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 66
Summary:
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 60–1
Summary:
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
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
