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with nothing on but drawers and shirt, in the pocket of 

 which he carried his pipe and a letter from F., of which he 

 is very proud and shows to everybody. 



Charles Darwin to his son George. 



MY DEAR GEORGE, DowN ' Jul y im 



One line to say how I, and indeed all of us, rejoice 

 that Adams thinks well of your work, and that if all goes 

 well will present your papers to Royal Soc. I know that I 

 shall feel quite proud. I do hope and fully believe that in 

 a few days you will be up to work again. Dr Clark was 

 very nice, when here, and enquired much about you. 



Horace goes on Monday to lecture on his dynam. at Bir- 

 mingham. Frank is getting on very well with Dipsacus and 

 has now made experiments which convince me that the 

 matter which comes out of the glands is real live proto- 

 plasm about which I was beginning to feel horrid doubts. 

 Leonard going to build forts. 



Oh Lord, what a set of sons I have, all doing wonders. 



Ever your Affect. : 



C. DARWIN. 









