From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 69: A12–13
Summary:
Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
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.
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.