From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 8
Summary:
Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 9
Summary:
Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Frederic Hislop Elliot
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 17
Summary:
Instinctive responses in animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 10
Summary:
Anxious to have GHD come home because of his poor health. Recommends Huxley’s physician (Andrew Clark) – an advocate of milk diet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[7 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 12 (EH 88205950)
Summary:
CD particularly wishes to see JT "On business not connected with himself" [the fund for Huxley’s holiday]. Asks whether CD may call that afternoon. GHD adds postscript saying CD very fatigued. He hopes JT can come to see CD instead, but he should not mention that GHD suggested it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 11
Summary:
Thinks highly of GHD’s article [probably "On beneficial restrictions to liberty of marriage", Contemp. Rev. 22 (1873): 412–26]. A good omen for the future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[29 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:
Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 12
Summary:
CD thinks GHD’s letter is an excellent clarification [of CD’s conjectural view on the elimination of useless parts in species], but does not want to publish it as his [CD’s] own. Asks GHD to think carefully before he publishes it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
4 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 16 October 1873, p. 505
Summary:
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
12 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 13
Summary:
Asks GHD whether he can tell him what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to the horizon in order to let vertical rain rebound off as much as possible.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 65
Summary:
On bodies of varying elasticity bouncing off inclined planes [see 9096].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1:14
Summary:
CD gives his criticisms of GHD’s essay on religion and the moral sense. Urges him to delay publishing for some months and then to consider whether it is new and important enough to counterbalance the effects of its publication. J. S. Mill would never have influenced the age as he has done had he not refrained from expressing his religious convictions. Cites John Morley’s Life of Voltaire [1872]: direct attacks produce little effect; real good comes from slow and silent side attacks. "My advice is to pause, pause, pause."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 [Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 15
Summary:
"It is a fearfully difficult moral problem about speaking out on religion, & I have never been able to make up my mind."
An Irishman, a "grand breeder" of short-horns, declared at lunch that CD’s books had been "a great help to [him] in breeding!"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103A/1/1–2)
Summary:
CD writes about organising a subscription for Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. Has drawn up a draft circular for naturalists to sign to show their support for the Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project