Note 162 — X SIR GEORGE DARWIN [152a]
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As a boy he had energetically collected Lepidoptera during the years 1858–61; the first vague indications of a leaning towards physical science may perhaps be found in his joining the Sicilian eclipse expedition, December, 1870—January, 1871. It appears from Nature, December 1, 1870, that George was told off to make sketches of the Corona.