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DCP-LETT-7757

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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DCP-LETT-7818

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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DCP-LETT-7791

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6765

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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DCP-LETT-7841

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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DCP-LETT-8124

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

DCP-LETT-8307

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8500

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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DCP-LETT-8846

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

DCP-LETT-8969

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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DCP-LETT-9031

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

DCP-LETT-9070

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

DCP-LETT-8702

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
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DCP-LETT-9084

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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DCP-LETT-9087

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

DCP-LETT-9088

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:
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DCP-LETT-9078

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

DCP-LETT-9097

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

DCP-LETT-9257F

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Henry Rayner
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Gives his and CD’s thanks for information on consanguinity among parents of asylum inmates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9260

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 32
Summary:

Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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