From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 3
Summary:
Congratulations on GHD’s brilliant tripos success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 3
Summary:
Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.
Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 5
Summary:
Sends news of his and Frank’s doings at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 6
Summary:
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
