From:
Charles Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 174: 18
Summary:
Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.
Thanks for his books. Encloses one of his own pamphlets on Atoms, which will show his personal view of mind versus matter. Comments on some of Haig's terminology.
Is sending JH a paper on standardization of measurement, using decimalization but not the meter.
Responds to objections published in the Times of 30 June to JH's 1864-6-18 letter to the Times regarding the introduction of the metric system in England; JH opposes this and goes on to explain the scientific basis of the British system.
Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Sending Book X.