107.1.1

Nov 1880

My father said what a change had come over the methods of science & that when he started for the Beagle voyage Rob^t Brown said Oh don't think of taking a compound microscope take a good simple one. -

My father was utterly puzzled by the ciliary movement on a Brazilian slugs back; he had never heard of cilia. -

R. Brown used simple lenses of 1/60 inch focal distance - made of Rubies.

107.1.3

Vol I p. 284

Was Spring Rice Chancellor?

Bagehot Eng Constⁿ p 254 says L^d Monteagle was the last Comptroller of the Exchequer.

107.1.4

Note. Fawcett July 16/61

+ My father was evidently gratified by Mr Fawcetts letter, as he copied out the above passage in a letter to Lyell: - "By the way I was pleased, considering how many have attacked me on "Induction" &c to have the other day from the blind H. Fawcett that he had spent an evening with J. Stuart Mill who &c."