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Authorised form of nameDarwin; Sir; George Howard (1845 - 1912); mathematician and geophysicist
Dates1845 - 1912
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDown House, Down, Kent, England
Date of birth09 July 1845
Place of deathNewnham Grange, Cambridge, England
Date of death07 December 1912
Dates and placesBaptism: St Peter's Church, Maer, Staffordshire, England (23 October 1845)
Burial place: Trumpington, Cambridge, England
OccupationBarrister
Research fieldGeophysics
Mathematics
Astronomy
ActivityEducation:
Clapham grammar school; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1864), MA
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1864); called to the Bar (1874); Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge University (1883); died of pancreatic cancer.
Honours:
KCB 1905
Awards/Medals:
Smith Prize 1868
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1892
Memberships:
Royal Astronomical Society (President 1899)
British Association (President 1894)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1898)
American Philosophical Society (1898)
United States National Academy of Sciences (1904)
Cambridge Philosophical Society (President 1912)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1879
Age at election34
ProposerWilliam Farr; John Lubbock; Joseph Prestwich; Henry John Stephen Smith; John Tyndall; William Grylls Adams; William Bowman; Joseph Norman Lockyer
John Ball; Thomas Spratt; John Hawkshaw; David Thomas Ansted; Edward Frankland; John Couch Adams; James Clerk Maxwell; William Thomson; Arthur Cayley; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; William Stanley Jevons
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1908-1909
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1884; Copley Medal 1911
Lectures:
Bakerian 1891
RelationshipsParents: Charles Robert Darwin (FRS 1839) and Emma Wedgwood
Siblings: Francis Darwin (FRS 1882); Horace Darwin (FRS 1903)
Great grandfather: Erasmus Darwin (FRS 1761)
Grandfather: Robert Waring Darwin (FRS 1788)
Spouse: Maud du Puy of Philadelphia (1884)
Children: Charles Galton Darwin (FRS 1922)
Published worksRCN 35507
RCN 14038
RCN 35509
RCN 35508
General contextCarried out extensive studies of the orbits of three rotating bodies, such as the Sun–Earth–Moon system.
His research laid the groundwork for the growth of the geophysical sciences.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
Image

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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1913-1914 vol 89 pp i-xiii signed by S S H
References:
James R Moore, 'On the Education of Darwin's Sons: The Correspondence Between Charles Darwin and the Reverend G V Reed, 1857-1864' in NR 1977-8 vol 32 pp 51-70
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/17289090
Royal Society codeNA8198
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MM/16/53Letter from Oliver Heaviside, Newton Abbott, to GH Darwin28 February 1898
MM/15/49Report by GH Darwin on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples4 March 1897
MM/17/85Letter from GH Darwin to Lord Rayleigh27 October 1892
MS/769/24Letter from George Howard Darwin, Down, Beckenham, Kent, to Walter White17 June 1879
MM/22/49Letter from Vito Volterra, Rome, to Sir George Darwin4 April 1903
MM/22/48Letter from Vito Volterra, Via in Lucina 17, Rome, to Sir George Darwin 17 February 1903
NLB/34/118Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George [Howard] Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society30 November 1906
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NLB/16/640Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society10 May 1898
NLB/2/539Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1888
NLB/2/224Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge5 March 1888
NLB/1/649Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society20 October 1887
NLB/4/128Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society18 February 1890
NLB/2/519Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Harrison & Sons26 July 1888
NLB/4/560Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1890
NLB/3/60Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge26 February 1889
NLB/3/457Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society15 June 1889
NLB/4/876Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Howard Darwin18 November 1890
NLB/3/464Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society17 June 1889
NLB/5/18Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society19 February 1891
NLB/3/1076Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society6 January 1890
NLB/6/1196Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1892
NLB/7/28Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster14 November 1892
NLB/7/48Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society17 November 1892
NLB/7/98Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to the Rector, University of Padua30 November 1892
NLB/7/797Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society[April 1893]
NLB/10/103Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1894
NLB/10/604Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society2 January 1895
NLB/8/781Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1893
NLB/10/774Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society4 February 1895
NLB/14/595Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society5 April 1897
NLB/8/1063Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society19 February 1894
NLB/8/1109Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society27 February 1894
NLB/10/964Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1895
NLB/11/231Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society17 May 1895
NLB/9/796Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society13 July 1894
NLB/12/521Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham Grange, Cambridge6 March 1896
NLB/13/45Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematical Committee1 June 1896
NLB/13/219Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematical Society6 July 1896
NLB/16/233Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham Grange, Cambridge 28 February 1898
NLB/13/515Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Sectional Committee on Mathematics2 October 1896
NLB/12/477Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society25 February 1896
NLB/13/543Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society6 October 1896
NLB/14/538Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee25 March 1897
NLB/14/565Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee30 March 1897
NLB/14/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society18 December 1896
NLB/12/112Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Director, Science Museum/ South Kensington Museum, South Kensingon, S.W.9 December 1895
NLB/14/60Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1896
NLB/14/484Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]18 March 1897
RR/13/52aReferee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' by Cargill Gilston Knott23 November 1896
RR/16/293Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'Le sage's theory of gravitation and the repulsion of light' by Professor George Howard DarwinMay 1905
RR/15/176Second referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The pear shaped and other figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard DarwinOctober 1901
RR/15/172Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'Ellipsoidal harmonic analysis' by George Howard DarwinMay 1901
RR/15/238Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Sur la stabilite de l'equilibre des figures pyriformes affectees par une masse fluide en rotation' by Jules Henri PoincareNovember 1901
RR/15/175Memoranda from Robert William Frederick Harrison, and reply from Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'The pear shaped and other figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard Darwin21 October 1901
RR/15/231Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Some additional notes on the orientation of Greek temples being the result of a journey to Greece & Sicily in April & May, 1900' by Francis Cranmer Penrose1 February 1901
RR/15/352Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The equilibrium of rotating liquid cylinders' by James Hopwood Jeans to Joseph Larmor5 March 1902
RR/15/228Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. X. Supplement to a memoir on skew variation' by Karl Pearson5 June 1901
RR/15/229Referee's report by George Howard Darwin and abstract proof of a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. XI. On the influence of natural selection on the variability and correlation of organs' by Karl Pearson27 January 1902
NLB/14/421Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society8 March 1897
NLB/14/389Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society[3 March 1897]
NLB/14/376Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society26 February 1897
NLB/14/635Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [George Howard] Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]12 April 1897
NLB/14/489Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society18 March 1897
RR/16/38Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The integrals of the squares of ellipsoidal surface harmonic functions' by George Howard Darwin30 January 1904
NLB/14/581Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society1 April 1897
NLB/14/717Copy letter from Robert Frederick William Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society3 May 1897
NLB/17New Letter Book volume 17, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration29 June 1898-20 December 1898
NLB/15New Letter Book volume 15, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration3 June 1897-11 January 1898
RR/15/354Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the vibrations and stability of a gravitating planet' by James Hopwood Jeans to Joseph Larmor7 November 1902
NLB/14/622Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 April 1897
NLB/14/724Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]3 May 1897
RR/16/37Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'The integrals of the squares of ellipsoidal surface harmonic functions' by George Howard Darwin4 January 1904
RR/15/381Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Some definite integrals and a new method of reducing a function of spherical coordinates to a series of spherical harmonics' by Arthur Schuster15 June 1902
RR/15/390Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Celestial mechanics. Influence of definite meteoric showers' by C S Stromeyer20 December 1902
RR/16/276Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the intensity & direction of the force of gravity in India' by Colonel Sidney Gerald Burrard29 March 1905
NLB/15/9Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin4 June 1897
RR/16/219Second referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'The seismic effect of tidal stresses' by Richard Dixon Oldham3 June 1904
NLB/15/28Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1897
RR/17/150Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'Further consideration of the stability of the pear-shaped figure of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard Darwin18 November 1907
NLB/15/169Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1897
NLB/15/152Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society 7 July 1897
NLB/16/222Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society23 February 1898
NLB/15/228Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Professor George Howard Darwin, Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Sir Archibald Geikie, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, and Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society20 July 1897
NLB/16/76Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1898
NLB/16/27Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [Prof G H] Darwin 14 January 1898
NLB/16/177Copy letter from Theodeore E James, to Professor Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Newnham Grange, Cambridge16 February 1898
NLB/16/63Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster [Fellow of the Royal Society]22 January 1898
NLB/16/191Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Secretary to H.M. Treasury, Whitehall, S.W.18 February 1898
NLB/16/705Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society21 May 1898
NLB/17/412Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]25 October 1898
NLB/16/306Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham Grange, Cambridge12 March 1898
NLB/15/833Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]20 December 1897
NLB/15/673Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Major Percy Alexander MacMahon, Fellow of the Royal Society15 November 1897
NLB/15/645Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney, and Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer Fellow of the Royal Society11 November 1897
NLB/16/550Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society27 April 1898
NLB/16/677Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society19 May 1898
NLB/17/23Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee5 July 1898
NLB/15/863Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham College, Cambridge4 January 1898
NLB/15/871Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society5 January 1897
NLB/17/50Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Dr Alexander Buchan, William Napier Shaw, Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellows of the Royal Society8 July 1898
NLB/17/217Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society 6 September 1898
NLB/17/122Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin20 July 1898
NLB/17/353Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society17 October 1898
NLB/17/359Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman, Mathematics Committee18 October 1898
NLB/17/530Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]14 November 1898
NLB/17/596Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society23 November 1898
NLB/16/860Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society (Chairman of the Mathematical Committee)22 June 1898
NLB/18/147Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor H E Armstrong, Fellow of the Royal Society24 January 1899
NLB/17/571Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to George Henry Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]20 November 1898
NLB/18/13Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1898
NLB/19/115Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Carey Foster, [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 June 1899
NLB/18/146Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society24 January 1899
NLB/17/752Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society15 December 1898
NLB/19/261Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]21 July 1899
NLB/18/155Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1899
NLB/23/2/216Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society24 June 1902
NLB/23/1/350Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society 29 October 1901
NLB/19/268Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]24 July 1899
NLB/21/100Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1900
NLB/22/512Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George Howard] Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society24 May 1901
NLB/28/363Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal SocietyFebruary 1904
NLB/20/346Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society30 March 1900
NLB/20/233Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society2 March 1900
NLB/18/686Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [Professor G H] Darwin21 April 1899
NLB/18/786Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society12 May 1899
NLB/20/123Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Andrew Russell Forsyth, [Fellow of the Royal Society]7 February 1900
NLB/20/309Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]20 March 1900
NLB/23/2/97Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society25 June 1901
NLB/20/320Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William E Darwin, Ridgmount, Basset, Southampton22 March 1900
NLB/22/319Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George Howard] Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 April 1901
NLB/23/1/202Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham Grange, Cambridge9 October 1901
NLB/21/528Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society] 3 December 1900
NLB/23/1/400Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society6 November 1901
NLB/23/2/247Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 September 1902
NLB/23/1/38Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society21 August 1901
NLB/22/808Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George Howard] Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1901
NLB/23/1/407Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society8 November 1901
NLB/23/1/224Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society12 October 1901
NLB/23/1/244Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society16 October 1901
NLB/25/20Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society24 July 1902
NLB/23/2/315Copy letter sent from Joseph Larmor, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society20 March 1903
NLB/23/1/423Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society11 November 1901
NLB/23/2/318Copy letter sent from Sir Michael Foster, to The Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office25 March 1903
NLB/23/1/596Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society10 December 1901
NLB/24/690Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society17 June 1902
NLB/29/130Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1904
NLB/41/446Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society15 December 1909
NLB/26/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society29 May 1903
NLB/28/74Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Augustus Edward Hough Love, Fellow of the Royal Society5 January 1904
NLB/29/303Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham Grange, Cambridge12 September 1904
NLB/30/99Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Arthur Robert Hinks, Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie, Professor George Howard Darwin, Mr Frank Watson Dyson, and Professor Ralph Allen Sampson, [Fellows of the Royal Society]27 January 1905
NLB/28/250Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Augustus Edward Hough Love, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee3 February 1904
NLB/31/907Copy memorandum from an unknown correspondent, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham Grange, Cambridge[5 December 1905]
NLB/30/885Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society6 June 1905
NLB/28/733Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1904
NLB/32/79Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1905
MC/21/137Postcard from [George Howard] Darwin, Cambridge, to Professor [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society[28 January 1906]
NLB/32/312Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Secretary to His Majesty's Treasury16 February 1906
NLB/31/877Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 November 1905
NLB/33/131Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society3 July 1906
NLB/32/345Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir George Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]22 February 1906
NLB/32/419Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society27 February 1906
NLB/33/180Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1906
NLB/32/504Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee21 March 1906
NLB/36/20Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society25 July 1907
NLB/32/730Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir George Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]17 May 1906
NLB/36/31Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society26 July 1907
NLB/32/871Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Cambridge8 June 1906
NLB/35/318Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society15 May 1907
NLB/36/83Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham College, Cambridge7 August 1907
NLB/36/119Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society19 August 1907
NLB/45/177Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George H [Howard] Darwin KCB, FRS12 January 1912
NLB/34/478Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society29 January 1907
NLB/34/726Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society2 March 1907
NLB/37/86Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, Sectretary of the Royal Society to Dr George [Howard] Darwin FRS24 January 1908
NLB/34/608Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society14 February 1907
NLB/34/888Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society21 March 1907
NLB/36/890Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society8 January 1908
NLB/37/751Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society8 May 1908
NLB/37/282Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George H [Howard] Darwin KCB, FRS25 February 1908
NLB/37/705Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George Darwin, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society4 May 1908
NLB/37/732Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir G [George] H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society6 May 1908
NLB/37/713Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George Darwin, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society4 May 1908
NLB/38/483Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society10 August 1908
NLB/38/551Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society[September 1908]
NLB/43/114Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society7 November 1910
NLB/42/61Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George H [Howard] Darwin KCB, FRS18 March 1910
NLB/42/96Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The President of the R Accademia dei Lincei, Rome24 March 1910
NLB/42/54Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Secretary, HM Treasury18 March 1910
NLB/42/62Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] N [Napier] Shaw FRS 18 March 1910
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NLB/45/104Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George Darwin KCB, FRS22 December 1911
NLB/43/235Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society26 November 1910
MC/25/54Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newham Grange, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]18 September 1910
NLB/45/9Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to [George Howard] Darwin6 December 1911
NLB/44/744Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Sir George Howard Darwin, KCB, FRS3 November 1911
NLB/44/786Copy letter from Robert William Fredercik Harrison to George H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, FRS10 November 1911
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NLB/45/687Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir G [George] H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, FRS23 April 1912
NLB/46/235Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 June 1912
NLB/45/667Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir G [George] H [Howard] Darwin KCB, FRS22 April 1912
RR/9/89Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the vibrations of a vortex ring, and the action upon each other of two vortices in a perfect fluid' by Joseph John Thomson1882
RR/11/183Report by Joseph Norman Lockyer, on his paper 'On the photographic spectra of some of the brighter stars' in response to George Howard Darwin's observations1893
RR/8/90Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' by George Howard Darwin20 July 1878
RR/8/154Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on two papers 'On the precession of a viscous spheroid, and on the remote history of the Earth' and 'Problems connected with the tides of viscous spheroid' by George Howard Darwin13 June 1879
RR/8/283Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On the tidal friction of a planet attended by several satellites, and on the evolution of the solar system' by George Howard Darwin5 May 1881
RR/11/246Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the annual and semi-annual seismic periods' by Charles Davison9 July 1893
RR/10/337Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On tidal prediction' by George Howard Darwin23 December 1890
RR/17/298Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The proportion of the sexes produced by whites and 'coloured people' in Cuba' by Walter Heape27 November 1908
RR/13/95Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.—III. Regression, heredity, and panmixia' by Karl Pearson27 October 1895
RR/11/64Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the causes which produce the phenomena of new stars' by Joseph Norman Lockyer17 January 1891
RR/13/49Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The rotation of an elastic spheroid' by Sydney Samuel Hough to the Secretary of the Royal Society11 December 1895
RR/13/162Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the significance of Bravais' formulæ for regression, in the case of skew correlation' by George Udny Yule 7 January 1897
RR/12/205Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Contributions to the mathematical theory of evolution.—II. Skew variation in homogeneous material' by Karl Pearson28 December 1894
RR/13/19Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the diurnal periodicity of earthquakes' by Charles Davison15 May 1896
RR/13/53Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On lunar periodicities in earthquake frequency' by Cargill Gilston Knott to Richard Tetley Glazebrook11 December 1896
RR/13/218Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The total solar eclipse of August 9, 1896.- Report on the expedition to Kiö Island' by Joseph Norman Lockyer1 June 1897
RR/17/427Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The figure of the earth' by J Prescott2 February 1909
RR/15/317Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'The stability of the pear-shaped figure of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard DarwinAugust 1902
RR/13/224Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'A Maya calendar inscription, interpreted by Goodman's tables' by Alfred Percival Maudslay to the Secretary of the Royal Society10 April 1897
RR/12/402Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'India's contribution to geodesy' by James Thomas Walker8 June 1895
RR/14/83Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. —VI. Genetic (reproductive) selection: Inheritance of fertility in man, and of fecundity in thoroughbred racehorses' by Karl Pearson4 December 1898
RR/13/241Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the distribution of frequency (variation and correlation) of the barometric height at divers stations' by Karl Pearson and Alice Lee28 June 1897
RR/13/194Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the application of harmonic analysis to the dynamical theory of the tides. — Part I. On laplace’s "oscillations of the first species” and the dynamics of ocean currents' by Sydney Samuel Hough7 April 1897
RR/13/196Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the application of harmonic analysis to the dynamical theory of the tides.—Part II. On the general integration of Laplace’s dynamical equations' by Sydney Samuel Hough24 October 1897
RR/13/243Memorandum by George Howard Darwin, on Richard Strachey's report on a paper 'On the distribution of frequency (variation and correlation) of the barometric height at divers stations' by Karl Pearson and Alice Lee2 July 1897
RR/15/171Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'Ellipsoidal harmonic analysis' by George Howard DarwinMay 1901
RR/14/5Letter from W Steadman Aldis, to George Howard Darwin, regarding a paper [attributed] 'Tables for the solution of the equation d2y/dx2 + 1/x · dy/dx - (1 + n2/x2) y = 0' by W Steadman Aldis20 August 1898
RR/19/127Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The influence of selection and assortative mating on the ancestral and fraternal correlations of a mendelian population' by E C Snow[March 1912]
RR/10/143Letter from George Howard Darwin, to Michael Foster, regarding a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of a swarm of meteorites, and on theories of cosmogony' by George Howard Darwin6 July 1888
RR/14/222Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Some additional notes on the orientation of greek temples; being the result of a journey to greece and sicily in April and May, 1900' by Francis Cranmer Penrose13 May 1899
RR/14/212Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the propagation of earthquake motion to great distances' by Richard Dixon Oldham15 July 1899
RR/10/142Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of a swarm of meteorites, and on theories of cosmogony' by George Howard Darwin28 March 1888
RR/10/225Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Report on hygrometric methods; first part, including the saturation method and the chemical method, and dew-point instruments' by William Napier Shaw26 February 1888
RR/17/26Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'On the figure and stability of a liquid satellite' by George Howard Darwin16 March 1906
RR/9/260Letter from George Howard Darwin, on his paper 'Results of the harmonic analysis of tidal observations' to the Secretary of the Royal Society12 March 1885
MS/427/416Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert Henry] Scott, Esq, FRS, Secretary of the Meteorological Council19 February 1885
CD/46/17Letter from [Leonard Darwin, President of the Geographical Society], to George [Howard Darwin]25 November 1908
CD/60/2Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge, to Joseph Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society22 June 1905
NLB/42/65Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Senatore, Professor P Blaserna, President of the R Accademis dei LinceiUndated
MS/427/391Note of a letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Henry Ponsonby6 November 1884
MS/427/392Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Hon. [Charles]. W. Fremantle7 November 1884
MS/427/413Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury19 February 1885
MM/15/106Report of the Astronomical Survey of Ancient British Monuments Committee29 June 1906
IM/Maull/001068Darwin, Sir George Howardnd
MC/27/81Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newham Grange, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]22 May 1912
MM/15/105Extracts from Council Minutes of the Royal Society, on the creation of a Committee to consider the subject of the proposed Astronomical survey of Ancient British Monuments1906
MM/17/93Letter from GH Darwin to Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society19 November 1889
MM/15/51Further comments by GH Darwin on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples 6 April 1897
NLB/2/367Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society18 May 1888
NLB/8/944Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1894
NLB/8/934Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1894
NLB/10/1004Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Honourable F L Wood, Secretary, Charterhouse, E.C.21 March 1895
NLB/14/72Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1896
RR/15/101Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. IX. On the principle of homotyposis and its relation to heredity. Part I. Homotyposis in the vegetable kingdom' by Karl Pearson15 December 1900
RR/15/78Referee's report by George Henry Darwin, on a paper 'Data for the problem of evolution in man VI. A first study of the correlation of the human skull' by Alice Lee and Karl Pearson15 August 1900
NLB/14/599Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society7 April 1897
NLB/45New Letter Book volume 45, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration5 December 1911-21 May 1912
RR/17/99Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The tidal régime of the river Mersey, as affected by the recent dredgings at the bar in Liverpool Bay' by James N Shoolbred14 June 1906
RR/17/25Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'Roche's Ellipsoids and on allied problems relating to satellites' ['On the figure and stability of a liquid satellite'] by George Howard Darwin21 February 1906
NLB/16/77Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Henrici, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1898
NLB/16/198Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G H Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham Grange, Cambridge19 February 1898
NLB/15/272Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Professor George Howard Darwin, Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Sir Archibald Geikie, Fellows of the Royal Society24 July 1897
NLB/15/624Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Andrew Russell Forsyth, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1897
NLB/16/120Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Rucker5 February 1898
NLB/15/852Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to the Secretary, Her Majesty's Treasury, Whitehall, S.W.24 December 1897
NLB/17/478Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 November 1898
NLB/19/857Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 January 1900
NLB/19/855Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Andrew Russell Forsyth, Fellow of the Royal Society8 January 1900
NLB/20/278Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to William Abbott Herdman, [Fellow of the Royal Society]12 March 1900
NLB/25/635Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 December 1902
NLB/28/766Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society16 May 1904
NLB/34/755Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society5 March 1907
NLB/39/91Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society25 November 1908
NLB/39/171Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee4 December 1908
NLB/45/707Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, FRS27 April 1912
RR/8/93Second letter from George Howard Darwin, regarding a paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' by George Howard Darwin7 November 1878
RR/10/135Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree1 August 1888
RR/10/246Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The waves on a rotating liquid spheroid of finite ellipticity' by George Hartley Bryan5 November 1888
RR/10/29Referee's report by John Couch Adams, on a paper 'On figures of equilibrium of rotating masses of fluid' by George Howard Darwin22 June 1887
RR/14/81Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.—V. On the reconstruction of the stature of prehistoric races' by Karl Pearson1 August 1898
RR/12/74Letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Howard Darwin, regarding a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison3 February 1894
NLB/16New Letter Book volume 16, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 January 1898-29 June 1898
EC/1879/13Darwin, Sir George Howard: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/949Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]22 November 1889
NLB/7/33Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Carlo F Ferraris, Rector of the University of Padua 13 November 1892
NLB/7/27Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society14 November 1892
RR/15/173Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The pear shaped and other figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard DarwinSeptember 1901
NLB/16/74Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Henrici, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1898
NLB/35/339Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Charles Scott Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society17 May 1907
NLB/36/775Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee13 December 1907
NLB/32New Letter Book volume 32, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 December 1905-13 June 1906
RR/10/30Referee's report by Archibald Geikie, on a paper 'On figures of equilibrium of rotating masses of fluid' by George Howard Darwin31 May 1887
RR/10/49Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Some anomalies in the winds of Northern India, and their relation to the distribution of barometric pressure' by S A Hill19 May 1887
RR/12/39Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Harmonic analysis of hourly observations of air temperature and pressure at British observatories.—part I. Temperature' by Richard Strachey22 March 1893
RR/12/146Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'An estimate of the degrees of legitimate natality as derived from a table of natality compiled by the author from his observations made at Budapest' by Joseph Kórösi31 January 1894
RR/12/79Second letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison29 October 1894
RR/12/75Second letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Howard Darwin, regarding a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison6 February 1894
RR/14/3Letter from Joseph John Thomson, to George Howard Darwin, regarding a paper [attributed] 'Tables for the solution of the equation d2y/dx2 + 1/x · dy/dx - (1 + n2/x2) y = 0' by W Steadman Aldis3 August 1898
RR/15/174Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hugh Love, on a paper 'The pear shaped and other figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard Darwin8 October 1901
RR/16/216Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The seismic effect of tidal stresses' by Richard Dixon Oldham7 May 1904
MC/11/294Letter from G H [George Howard] Darwin, Down, Beckenham, Kent, Railway Station, Orpington, to Sir William Thomson30 December 1878
MC/11/373Letter from G H [George Howard] Darwin, Trinity College, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]5 June 1879
MC/11/393Letter from G H [George Howard] Darwin, 6 Queen Anne Street, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]23 June 1879
MC/11/399Letter from G H [George Howard] Darwin, Trinity College Cambridge, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]13 July 1879
MC/11/404Letter from G H [George Howard] Darwin, Trinity College Cambridge, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]21 July 1879
MC/11/403Letter from G H [George Howard] Darwin, Trinity College Cambridge, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]17 July 1879
MC/11/391Letter from G H [George Howard] Darwin, Down, Beckenham, Kent, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]21 June 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12/31Letter from G H [George Howard] Darwin, Down, Beckenham, to the Royal Society2 April 1880
MC/12/164Letter from G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]26 May 1881
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
RR/9/7Referee's report by John Couch Adams, on a paper 'On the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains' by George Howard Darwin18 January 1882
RR/8/14Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the influence of geological changes on the earth's axis of rotation' by George Howard Darwin7 March 1877
RR/12/76Third letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Howard Darwin, regarding a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison7 February 1894
RR/12/77Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison14 July 1894
RR/12/99Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The asymmetrical probability curve' by F Y Edgeworth3 July 1894
RR/15/316Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'The stability of the pear-shaped figure of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard Darwin28 July 1902
RR/8/284Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on two papers 'On the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains' by George Howard Darwin, and 'On the limit of the liquid state' by J B Hannay30 October 1881
RR/15/177Second referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'The pear shaped and other figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard Darwin30 October 1901
PP/4/3Paper, 'On the formation of ripple-mark in sand' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1883
PP/4/3/1Manuscript, 'On the formation of ripple-mark in sand' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1883
PP/4/3/2Figures, ripple marks in sand by G H [George Howard] Darwin1883
PP/4/11Paper, 'On the figure of equilibrium of a planet of heterogeneous density' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1883
PP/9/10Paper, 'On Jacobi's figure of equilibrium for a rotating mass of fluid' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1886
PP/8/19Paper, 'On the correction to the equilibrium theory of tides for the continents' by G H [George Howard] Darwin and H H [Herbert Hall] Turner1886
PP/6/30Paper, 'Note on a previous paper' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1885
PP/6/30/1Manuscript, 'Note on a previous paper' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1885
PP/6/30/2Diagrams, 'Diagram showing curves of equal stress-difference due to the weight of second harmonic inequalities or to tide-generating force' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1885
PP/9/10/1Manuscript, 'On Jacobi's figure of equilibrium for a rotating mass of fluid' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1886
PP/9/11Paper, 'On the dynamical theory of the tides of long period' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1886
NLB/6/786Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor J P van der Stok, Director of the Observatory Batavia, Java [Jakarta, Indonesia]13 July 1892
PP/9/10/2Diagrams, geometrical diagrams by G H [George Howard] Darwin1886
PP/17/17/1Manuscript, 'The rupture of steel by longitudinal stress' by Charles A [Ashley] Carus-Wilson1890
PP/15/26Paper, 'On the stability of a rotating spheroid of perfect liquid' by G H [George Hartley] Bryan1890
PP/13/36Paper, 'Second series of results of the harmonic analysis of tidal observations' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1889
PP/20/23/1Paper, 'On an apparatus for facilitating the reduction of tidal observations' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1892
PP/20/23/2Diagrams, harmonic analysis by G H [George Howard] Darwin1892
PP/16/27Paper, 'On the harmonic analysis of tidal observations of high and low water' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1890
PP/17/17Paper, 'The rupture of steel by longitudinal stress' by Charles A [Ashley] Carus-Wilson1890
PP/20/23Paper, 'On an apparatus for facilitating the reduction of tidal observations' by G H [George Howard] Darwin1892
RR/8/91Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' by George Howard Darwinnd [1878]
RR/8/153Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on two papers 'On the precession of a viscous spheroid, and on the remote history of the Earth' and 'Problems connected with the tides of viscous spheroid' by George Howard Darwin13 May 1879
RR/14/124Letter from George Howard Darwin, to Arthur William Rucker, regarding a paper 'On the orientation of the pyramids and temples in the Sûdân' by E A Wallis Budge29 July 1899
RR/15/94Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution VIII. On the correlation of characters not quantitatively measurable' by Karl Pearson18 February 1900
RR/15/137Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The association of attributes in statistics, with examples from the material of the Childhood Society, etc' on a paper by George Udny Yule8 November 1899
RR/8/13Referee's report by Alexander Ross Clarke, on a paper 'On the influence of geological changes on the earth's axis of rotation' by George Howard Darwin4 April 1877
RR/8/92Letter from George Howard Darwin, on his paper 'On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus' to The Royal Society5 August 1878
RR/8/219Letter from George Howard Darwin, to William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, regarding a paper 'On the secular changes in the elements of the orbit of a satellite revolving about a tidally distorted planet' by Thomas Edward Thorpe27 June 1880
RR/10/2Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the relation between tropical and extra-tropical cyclones' by Ralph Abercromby22 February 1887
RR/10/31Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the distribution of strain in the Earth's crust resulting from secular cooling, with special reference to the growth of continents and the formation of mountain-chains' by Charles Davison11 June 1887
RR/10/50Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Some anomalies in the winds of Northern India, and their relation to the distribution of barometric pressure' by S A Hill4 August 1887
RR/11/182Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the photographic spectra of some of the brighter stars' by Joseph Norman Lockyer13 January 1893
RR/12/11Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Contributions to the mathematical theory of evolution' by Karl Pearson9 November 1893
RR/12/78Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison18 July 1894
RR/12/147Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'An estimate of the degrees of legitimate natality as derived from a table of natality compiled by the author from his observations made at Budapest' by Joseph Kórösi24 February 1894
RR/12/148Second referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'An estimate of the degrees of legitimate natality as derived from a table of natality compiled by the author from his observations made at Budapest' by Joseph Kórösi3 October 1894
RR/13/70Letter from Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to George Howard Darwin4 March 1896
RR/13/71Letter from Edwin Bailey Elliott, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to George Howard Darwin8 March 1896
RR/13/72Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on behalf of the Mathematical Commitee, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay 9 March 1896
RR/13/160Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the significance of Bravais' formulæ for regression, in the case of skew correlation' by George Udny Yule to Karl Pearson21 December 1896
RR/13/161Letter from Karl Pearson, on a paper 'On the significance of Bravais' formulæ for regression, in the case of skew correlation' by George Udny Yule to George Howard Darwin27 December 1896
RR/13/195Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the application of harmonic analysis to the dynamical theory of the tides. — Part I. On laplace’s "oscillations of the first species” and the dynamics of ocean currents' by Sydney Samuel Hough24 February 1897
RR/13/227Letter from George Howard Darwin, on behalf of the Committee, on a paper 'A Maya calendar inscription, interpreted by Goodman's tables' by Alfred Percival Maudslay to the Secretary of the Royal SocietyJune 1897
RR/13/250Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.— IV. On the probable errors of frequency constants and on the influence of random selection on variation and correlation' by Karl Pearson and Louis Napoleon George Filon2 January 1898
RR/14/120Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the orientation of the pyramids and temples in the Sûdân' by E A Wallis Budge25 April 1899
RR/14/216Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. —VII. On the correlation of characters not quantitatively measurable' by Karl Pearson25 September 1899
RR/16/354Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'A biometrical study of conjugation in paramaecium' by Raymond Pearl31 January 1906
RR/19/126Letter from George Howard Darwin, to John Rose Bradford, regarding a paper 'The influence of selection and assortative mating on the ancestral and fraternal correlations of a mendelian population' by E C Snow10 March 1912
MC/15/331Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society17 December 1892
MC/16/86Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society26 January 1894
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/18/36Letter from William de Wiveleslie Abney, Board of Education, South Kensington, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House21 March 1903
NLB/38/542Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and Sir Archibald Geikie, to Henry Frederick Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society, and others16 September 1908
MC/25/55Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newham Grange, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]20 October 1910
NLB/42/727Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir G [George] H [Howard] Darwin KCB, FRS 27 September 1910
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/27/80Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newham Grange, Cambridge, to the Chairman of Committee28 March 1912
NLB/45/589Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir G [George] H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, FRS1 April 1912
MC/28/58Letter from [William Erasmus] Darwin, 11 Egerton Place, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]30 July 1913
MC/27/288Letter from Edward Roberts, Park Lodge, Eltham, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]15 February 1912
NLB/32/220Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society30 January 1906
MC/21/138Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge, to [Alfred Bray] Kempe18 May 1906
MC/21/139Postcard from [George Howard] Darwin, Cambridge, to Professor [Joseph] Larmor1906
MC/18/37Letter from F G Ogilvie, Board of Education, South Kensington, London, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House1 May 1903
MC/18Volume 18 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1903
MC/22/53Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge, to [Archibald] Geikie24 July 1907
MC/22/54Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison25 July 1907
MC/22/52Letter from [George Howard] Darwin, Newnham Grange, Cambridge, to [Archibald] Geikie11 July 1907
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
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