Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?
Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.
Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].
Can FG come to lunch on Monday?
Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.
Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.
Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Asks about family letters.
Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].
Thanks FG for an extract [about Dr Erasmus Darwin?].
Conveys some information about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s second wife and discusses photos of him and his wife.
Caroline Darwin says mysterious visitor’s name was Brand. It was in time of Colonel Pole. Never visited Mrs Pole or Mrs Darwin [Elizabeth Collier], but sent respectful messages.
Memorandum about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s bequests.
CD’s father thought he had not been treated fairly about his share of his mother’s [Mary Howard Darwin’s] fortune. Will not allude to this [in Erasmus Darwin]. Surprising that grandfather did not make more money. Has found memorandum of his having lost £1500 in ironworks.
CD’s little biography [Erasmus Darwin] has turned out very dull.
May FG’s tour turn out pleasant.
Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;
asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.
Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.
Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].
Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.
Will see what can be done about getting thumb impressions, to see if the markings are persistent.
Thanks for mentioning CarlVogt, to whom he will write.
Comments on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s interest in mental imagery.
Invites FG to lunch.