Characterisation, especially by LetU 'jll 



niutii to allay them, as J <\<>. Our few peaches have just BOOM to BO end, hut hop that 



»ix dj -till on their tree, will o ripen. We ha/I an orange coloured turnip lot 



lunch today. J had never seen one before. I> tatted just like a white o 



How is Bob getting on in Wall be dream of mil.. fl'rey Butler is 



week from America with plenty to tell II ire of bun and 



tw many pi myself with devising a workable constitution I 



writing ever -o much I find over and over again that -,ome arrangement won't work rightly 



and everything baa to be altered. I live quite as much in / I do in Baslemere. 



I go there continually, as on a villeggiatura by a suburban train. (Jut I find itch very 



t, and rJernolished quartan have to \i>: replanned and rehuilt. • cheap to 



build castles in the air. With all loves. Ever affectionately. I 



'I'm ' -hav-hoit, If 5, 1010. 



Mv i.Ku: hum m;i< Dabwib, I can't help in solving your question. The answer mast gre at ly 



depend on where the |>eopIe live and how. In many villages, notably Scotch sea , the 



fi-iherfolk never marry outside their immediate neighbourhood. In such an extreme case 

 the number of their forefathers, any number k, would hardly exceed that of the 



nt villagers. On the other hand, a migratory population might have greatly intermarried 

 with outsit 



PBOBLRM. Noah and his wife have an increasing Dumber of descendants during n 

 rations; find the r"' generation in which the number of ancestors is largest. .'I; 

 ime the problem in its utmost simplicity of every 100 pe oming 100 t-a • - •' • 



in the Deration) — the figure- is something of this sort. I worked it out once, 



but forget the result, except that r wa • - - • 



We are settled in the Hindhead district tor the winter, in the above house till 

 Nov. 15, and then in ano by. I pull on — sometimes rather badly, often rather 



well, hut very infirm always, and am wheeled about and carried up and dowi Bat 1 have 



nothing to complain of. I sleep like Morpheus and enjoy a chastened dietary, and have had my 

 day. 



I bear, from time to time, personal and scientific news from men like Sir A. Oeikie, who 

 lives within a distant reach and there are many nice people about. My niece takes excellent 

 care of me. The village is not far off where the following occurred — told me by the Vicar's 

 son : 



Vicar. " Why, Mary, is the old woman dead at last? she seemed to me fairly well yesterday." 



Mary. "Yea, -ir. Her cough had been bad and noisy at nights for 'I Jim said to 



BM last night, 'I can't abide that . t up, Mary, and put the pillow on your 



up and put the pillow on her, and she was that weak, her spirit 



flew away like a bird." 



Bhang— ( Hasehischj — i- 'A is, I find, a great sola/* in fits of bad asthma and cough. 



How good the pb< »re in the Royal Geographical Jimrnal. Too will lie hard at 



work soon with those stirring |*ople. Remember me please most kindly to your wife and two 



brothers now with you. ncerely yours, Fra.vcis Galto». 



The Cockt, Gbayshott, Haslemebk HO. 



Mv nEAK Millv, Dim left us this morning perfectly well. I wish she could have stayed 



r. I had a "private" note last week from the President of the Royal Society to say that 



the Council had awarded me the Copley Medal, but that it was not to be publicly announced 



i ue ribbon " of the scientific world, and 



I am of course deeply gratified. One is awarded annually, without distinction of ■'.;/ or 



•'. when the scientific work was done, whether lately or some years back. As a fact, an 



ihrnan g quite so often as once in two years. About five other living 



ive it. People are always very kind to me, but I wish my Father and Emma 



were alive It would have given them real pleasure. We move to the new bouse in a month's 



time. Eva is off for the day to her old friend the blind M irt 



affectionately, Fbaxcis Galtos. 

 What a nuisance about your motor! What a shameful blot!! 



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