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.".