From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 326
Summary:
Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.