Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.
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Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.
Thanks for maps.
George [Darwin] failed at St John’s [College, Cambridge] and will stay another year at school.
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
Discusses income provided for sons at Cambridge.
Thanks for note about George Darwin’s gaining Second Wrangler.
Agrees that naval expeditions to the Arctic are a waste of money. Believes Sir J. Barrow responsible. "Dr [Richard?] King is quite right in the advantage of Land Expeditions".