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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
25 January 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 24
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
27 February [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 25
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
3 March 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? March 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
3 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 239.4: 1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
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:
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[late November 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 31
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters