DARWIN'S EXPERIMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 846, 17 November 1877, Page 3

DARWIN'S EXPERIMENTS.

'from'a'majn^o 'a mollusc.

( j Hljß jl>AjiWi# j threateijs tp^contribute to a magazine an articlelbn infants, suggeßtsdj.L^i.the.imental , develop meut r pf jOi^ /( of his own .sons., ; Movers are" cautioned j against reisdirig'itj' as-therei' is m every line. He expects f;o proye i that the:textiireipf/yourig| Darwin at hier birih was anailgtraj} t6 the ' r plitlp of clam . ; . tha t , %V$ :j crown u of 'bis , heji'd, , '^as' '^'as .gel'alinoiugt.M r.a marsh-mallow lozenge, and his bones i as. grtstlyas a simple polyp. These - examinations were froi itiaide without

difficulty. jone^ogcasion, the great scientist was boring' 1 'hi^ 'infant'd nose with a needle to prove that the cartilage waß penetrable, ; when b.e W46;disoovered^by Mrs I) and the nurse, who desigrie'ct ! ari intricate Italian flower garden on his face m less, than two minutes. At another time lie poulticed young . Darwin s spine surreptitiously, m the hope '-of nvaiking ; a tail l grow, 'and tried to fib him out with an am-' J phibious breathing arrangement, , which, ;waiß; ,sq ysjiccessful that, after the child N s head had -been^under water ' for 1 thirty secondsj he was, black m the face, and hjy comatose' for a weekr ' Young JDarwin .can .dp* jhowever,, a^igreat many things: which other lads of bis age are not at all proficient m. Though not' ■fifieeri jrears old, he can run,on,all fours)' troi or gall6p, dig roots with an ; artiiicial snou# ancl climb trees like a cpqn. , }i M^ brains^ were . parfcjally extracted when, hVwasa! - week oldy ' and he can neither, speak nor dnderstand. Though not eiactly qiiadrumanous, lie is just as iVnandy w,Lt)x h^s, .feet- as he is foothy with . hia^h»Bda, a^d eairly 1 Craiujng ?: &^^^Mm i£ i6^Sn^ :^f r^oti& .sum :> tt'b'rftnch'-'Bnd''eat;'nutß with his toes jvith the greatest cask' .The :, father .of" ,ni,odf rn,,thpught j. Hopes^to '[ live tQ. see, hia.son, mi^§i fofo .w^lU bred Azt(Sc,^and isJconfideri* *^ a * hisl grandchildreu will be thfee .lower, iln sacrificing;, his ; offering to .science,, Mr ; Darwin depen^s!^^, ; i fw,ture. J gen'era,tiQO9 f tp completej, his; work j'-t>ufc;aß time rolls onj mankind will doubtless have the plektfare of ' 'gaizing' 9n J a 'Vei^)t^gasteropddus mollusc, on a wall directly and lineally descended from ihe'.igreat-- / theOrißt,^iS.f Fj iNewsi Lettefr; >IJ - >);) ' ; •