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:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 65
Summary:
Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 66
Summary:
Recounts some figures relating deaf-mutism and consanguineous marriages.
GHD has failed to be elected to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 67
Summary:
Is frustrated to see, from a paragraph in Nature [18 (1878): 242], that Charles Lagrange has got hold of the same sort of ideas as he has.
Erasmus is unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 68
Summary:
Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.13: 14–15, DAR 210.2: 69
Summary:
Sends drawings of specimens [of Thalia] CD requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 70
Summary:
Recounts the experiments on Fechner’s law he has found in Helmholz; they are on the smallest perceptible differences of illumination. Describes how to test whether plants’ responses to lights are in accordance with it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 71, The Royal Society (RR/8/91)
Summary:
Encloses William Thomson’s report on GHD’s paper. Some of it was written in Rayleigh’s hand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 73
Summary:
Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].
Writes of his tour [in Algeria].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[30 Apr 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 78
Summary:
Sends some papers on Erasmus Darwin for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 74
Summary:
Encloses some references [missing] to information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 75
Summary:
Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].
Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 76
Summary:
Sends abstracts of more articles [on Dr Erasmus Darwin] from Monthly Magazine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 77
Summary:
Sends results of his researches on the Darwin family at the Record Office.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 79
Summary:
Has written to Col. J. L. Chester [genealogist] to ask whether he would like to see the deeds [for Darwin genealogy, see Emma Darwin 2: 237].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 80
Summary:
Sorry to hear Henrietta’s opinion of the [Erasmus Darwin] proofs. GHD did not think it dull. He makes some suggestions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 81
Summary:
Erasmus thinks CD should give a copy of Erasmus Darwin to Henry Parker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
