MEMOIRS OF 



Pr. Darwin's fecond marriage, the Mifs 

 Parkers, his relations, opened a female 

 boaiding-fchool at Alhbourn in Derbyfhirc. 

 To the education of thofe ingenious and 

 good young women he had paid fome 

 general attention, and had feduloufly and 

 warmly, by recommendation and by other 

 means, exerted himfelf to ferve them. 

 To promote the fuccefs of their undertak- 

 ing he publiflied, on it's commencement, a 

 fmall tract on Female Education. The 

 precife time of it's appearance is not re- 

 collected. The compofition was by no 

 means worthy of Dr. Darwin's exalted 

 abilities. It's fubject cannot be fuppofed 

 to have employed much of his confider- 

 ation. 



The fyftem of his whole life on thaf 

 theme had been at war with all fort of re- 

 ftraint on the time, the amufements, and 

 the diet of children. Irony was the only 

 corrective weapon he had ever ufed to his 



own. 



