Darwin, Sir George Howard. SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. 4 vols., super roy. 8vo, First Edition; Volume I, Oceanic Tides and Lunar Disturbance of Gravity, pp. [ii], xvi, 464(last blank); 1 plate, a few figures, several tables; Volume II, Tidal Friction and Cosmogony, pp. xvi, 516; several figures, several tables; Vol. III, Figures of Equilibrium of Rotating Liquids and Geophysical Investigations, pp. xvi, 528(last blank); a few figures, a few tables, Errata slip; Vol. IV, Periodic Orbits and Miscellaneous Papers, pp. xx, 592; 4 plates, several figures, several tables, appendix; chronological list of papers and index to each volume; original blue cloth, with bevelled edges, spines gilt; a fine, clean, ex-library set, with very slight marking to spines from removal of labels, and a single stamp and bookplate to pastedowns; very scarce. Cambridge; at the University Press; 1907-08-10-11.
***Sir George Darwin (1845-1912) was the second son of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science at Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. A further slim supplementary volume with a biographical memoir by his brother Francis and a couple of lectures was posthumously published in 1916. #65695
