Darwin G Eorge H Oward (2 results)

pp. (ii), 491-535, (iii). 3 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers, dusty and frayed along the spine, a deep sepia offsetting onto the blank leaf facing the plates from an inserted carbon print of the author [not offered with this item but available separately], the offsetting very faintly affecting the following plate, the last two plates with the lower corners dampmarked. *G. H. DARWIN [1845-1912], 5th. child, second son, of Charles and Emma Darwin, FRS 1879, Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge, 1883, concentrating his work on theories of cosmogony.…

pp. (ii), 447-538. 1 lithographed plate. Original printed wrappers, loose, dusty and frayed, the plate damp-marked at the top edge, signed by G. H. Darwin in pencil at the top edge of the front cover. *Sir George Darwin had been elected FRS in 1879, the year of publication of this paper. His first paper to the Society, the memoir 'On the Influence of Geological Changes on the Earth's Axis of Rotation' was read in 1876 and published in the Society's Philosophical Transactions (1877). All of his scientific work from that time onwards concentrated upon aspects of cosmogony.…