Enquires about the relationship of English grains to French milligrammes.
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Enquires about the relationship of English grains to French milligrammes.
Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
Congratulations on GHD’s brilliant tripos success.
John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
Leonard Darwin has scarlet fever so GHD has said he should be sent home and has asked E. A. Williams to call at Down.
Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.
Notes, calculations, and diagrams on phyllotaxy.
Discusses some angles [relating to phyllotaxy].
The forthcoming school holidays.
Calculates the relationship between grains and milligrams; asks his mother for a fruit tart and twelve napkins.
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.
Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.
Sends news of his and Frank’s doings at Cambridge.
Has inquired about magnetic storms. Any effect that could be produced by the sun’s energy in retarding the cooling of the earth would be utterly insignificant.
Tells of his visit to Eton.
Is uncertain about next steps to take for a legal career.
Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].
Cambridge news.
Encloses a letter [from J. Croll?].
Has been unable to find a paper CD wanted.
Is leaving shortly for Paris.
Asks for some money for his fees.
Discusses some calculations which he is doing for CD on the ratios of red and brown colouring in some animals.