[138b] Borelli, De Motu Animalium, Pt. II. Ch. xiii. According to Sachs, Ges. d. Botanik, p. 582, Mariotte (1679) had suggested the same idea.
[138c] Nägeli, Stärkekörner, p. 279.
[139a] See his Philosophical Experiments, 1739.
[139b] Geschichte d. Botanik, p. 515 (free translation).
[140] An Address on the occasion of the opening of the Darwin Laboratories at Shrewsbury School, October 20, 1911.
[141a] In the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I., are given my father’s autobiographical recollections. He wrote (pp. 31–32): “Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler’s school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history.” This seems to be an exaggeration, as the following list shows. It is taken from Samuel Butler’s Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, 1896, Vol I., p. 196. The “weekly course of instruction for the fifth and sixth forms, under Dr. Butler,” is given, and the items which are not classical are as follows:—
Monday.—English History follows Grecian and Roman history. The rest of a very full day is classical.
Tuesday.—Half-holiday. All classical except that the Masters of accomplishments attend in the afternoon.
Wednesday.—All classical.
Thursday.—Half-holiday. All classical except a “Lecture in algebra” for the sixth and upper fifth forms.