Letter 5843
Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, G. H.
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John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.
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Feb 6
My dear George
Perhaps you w
Sir J. Lubbock has been calling here, & he seemed to regret
that you had not accepted the Eton proposal, as a grand opening
for making a great school scientific; but he agreed that without
you felt a decided taste for the work, it w
Yours affect | C. Darwin
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The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869. - +
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CD evidently enclosed the letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869. Gravitational heat is energy released when masses aggregate, converting their original potential energy into heat energy (see Thomson 1862a). See letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 and n. 5. - +
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George had recently visited Eton and evidently had been considering a teaching position there (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 6 February 1869). John Lubbock had been a pupil at Eton from 1845 to 1848; he was later critical of the emphasis on classics to the exclusion of other subjects (Hutchinson 1914, 1: 16--17). At Eton, physical science was introduced for the Fifth Form in 1869 (Lyte 1911, p. 529).