To G. H. Darwin [19 August 1875]
Summary
Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [19 Aug 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10128 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 October [1875]
Summary
Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.
Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.
Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10196 |
To G. H. Darwin [25 October 1875]
Summary
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [25 Oct 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10223 |
From Francis Galton to G. H. Darwin 22 December 1875
Summary
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10317 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 4 September 1876]
Summary
Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.
Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10338 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 25 February 1879]
Summary
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10342 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 January [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10348 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Summary
Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10478 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10480 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 May [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 June [1876]
Summary
Further comments on GHD’s work on the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis.
Frank [Francis Darwin] has made a fine zoological discovery.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10528 |
To G. H. Darwin [4 June 1876]
Summary
Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [4 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10530 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 July [1876]
Summary
All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.
Gives news of his other sons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 July [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10561 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1876]
Summary
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10647 |
To G. H. Darwin [23 April 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [23 Apr 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10937 |
To G. H. Darwin [3 June 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10946 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1877]
Summary
Has not yet received letter [about Cambridge honorary LL.D.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 May [1877] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10976 |
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 13 June [1877]
Summary
The widow of Jules Michelet is seeking donations towards his tomb, and says that he was a great admirer of CD.
Author: | Frederic Harrison |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 251: 1914 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10999F |
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 15 June [1877]
Summary
Had no intention of pressing CD over Madame Michelet’s fundraising for her husband’s tomb.
Author: | Frederic Harrison |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 15 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 251: 1915 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11001F |
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