From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 326
Summary:
Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].
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.