From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871]1
University “Pitt” Club
Dear Father
I will xplain about Hospital— One goes there (1) to keep lectures wh are wanted for the MB exams (2) to keep so many months hospital practice2 I cannot get away from here till the 9th of June & Stirling3 thinks that I couldn’t keep the lectures for this summer term even if I went on till July 31—also I have kept at Cambridge the lectures for a 1st year student so I dont lose time by missing the summer term lectures in London4—tho of course it wd be nice to begin working off my 2nd year lectures
(2) I shall be able to do 6 weeks hospital practice which make up the right number months to be kept. So I think it is all right—
I have hunted through all the Records & through Englemann,5 the only paper on the eye of the Cuttle fish is by Hensen in the Ann Sc Nat, I will send reference, but it wd amuse me to make a short abstract of the differences between the Vert eye & its eye if that will do—6
Yrs affec | FD
I will hunt for the developement of the eye I havnt read Goodman7
I cant get a mole
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.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Goodman, Neville. 1871. Review of Descent, St. G. Mivart, Genesis of species and A. R. Wallace, Contributions to the theory of natural selection. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology 5 (1870–1): 363–72.
Hensen, Christian Andreas Victor. 1865. Über das Auge einiger Cephalopoden. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 15: 155–242.
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Explains about the attendance at St George’s hospital that is required for the MB examaminations, and how this would affect plans for a trip to north America.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7765G
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 274.1: 16
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7765G,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7765G.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19