From G. H. Darwin 19 April 1877
Trin. Coll. Camb
Ap 19. 77
My dear Father
The reference to the Worm paper is
Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie. Bd. XXVIII 1877 p 354.1 F. Balfour asked me to give you a message the other day which I quite forgot. He saw Lacaze Duthier when he was in Paris, who told him that you are about to be proposed again for the Academy, but that Huxley is proposed at same time & it is not unlikely may succeed as against you as being more orthodox!!2
Duthier is unwell himself but is doing what he can but, fears he will not be able to be present himself. He asked Balfour to let you know this.
I have just received the enclosed from Galton, which will give you a more accurate account of poor Mrs Galton’s state than you will have been likely to have received lately.3
Horace has taken his M.A today, & dined at the high table tonight4 We went to King’s afterwards to try to find Bradshaw but failed there & so went to another man’s room; & I’ve just got back leaving him to make another try for Bradshaw.5
This disgusting East wind has brought back my cold again and has been making me pretty wretched, but I contrive to stick to work fairly tho’ it’s uphill work. I don’t think I’ve any more news.
Yours affectionately | G H Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Gillham, Nicholas Wright. 2001. A life of Sir Francis Galton: from African exploration to the birth of eugenics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hensen, Victor. 1877. Die Thätigkeit des Regenwurms (Lumbricus terrestris L.) für die Fruchtbarkeit des Erdbodens. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 28: 354–64.
Stebbins, Robert E. 1988. France. In The comparative reception of Darwinism, edited by Thomas F. Glick. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Summary
Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10933
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 57
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10933,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10933.xml