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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 13
Summary:

Discusses buying a horse [for CD].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Feb 1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 14
Summary:

Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 15–16
Summary:

Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 12
Summary:

Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 37–40
Summary:

Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–4 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 22
Summary:

Mentions some photos relating to expression.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 May 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 18
Summary:

Has arranged a trip to the U. S. with Cambridge friends; believes it would be much jollier if Frank could go too.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 20
Summary:

Reports the passing of [Universities Tests] Bill and the consequent end to a bother.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 19
Summary:

Discusses his position at Cambridge, which is apparently under threat.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 11
Summary:

Gives CD some information on wills.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 21
Summary:

Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 64
Summary:

Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 89: 131–2, 187
Summary:

Sends sentences from Hermann von Helmholtz about difference between minor and major chords.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Aug 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 23
Summary:

Discusses the price of some heliotype prints [for Expression?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 55: 160–1
Summary:

Corrects chemical concentrations CD has been using [in insectivorous plant experimentation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Sept – 3 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 205.1: 74
Summary:

Criticises CD’s letter to Nature ["Complemental males in certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].

On the elimination of useless parts.

GHD fails to see the point of CD’s use of the law of distribution about a mean.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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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
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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