SIR GEORGE DARWIN 163 



Meanwhile he had determined on giving up the 

 Bar, and settled in October 1873, when he was 

 28 years old, at Trinity in Nevile's Court next 

 the library (G 4). His diary continues to contain 

 records of ill-health and of various holidays in 

 search of improvement. Thus in 1873 we read, 

 "Very bad during January. Went to Cannes and 

 stayed till the end of April." Again in 1874, 

 "February to July very iU." In spite of unwell- 

 ness he began in 1872-3 to write on various subjects. 

 He sent to Macmillan's Magazine^ an entertaining 

 article, "Development in Dress," where the survivals 

 in modem costume were recorded and discussed 

 from the standpoint of evolution. In 1873 he 

 wrote "On beneficial restriction to liberty of 

 marriage,"^ a eugenic article for which he was 

 attacked with gross unfairness and bitterness by 

 the late St. George Mivart. He was defended by 

 Huxley; and Charles Darwin formally ceased all 

 intercourse with Mivart. We find mention of a 

 "Globe Paper for the British Association" in 1873. 

 And in the following year he read a contribution on 

 "Probable Error" to the Mathematical Society* — 

 on which he writes in his diary, "found it was old." 

 Besides another paper in the Messenger of Mathe- 

 matics, he rcAdewed "Whitney on Language,"* 

 and wrote a "Defence of Jevons" which I have not 

 been able to trace. In 1875 he was at work on the 



^ MacmUlem's Magazine, 1872, VoL xxvi., pp. 410-416. 



* Conttmporctry Review, 1873, VoL xxn., pp. 412-426. 

 ' Not published. 



* Comtempormry Review, 1874, Vcd. xsiv., pp. 894-904. 



