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A DARWIN
MEMORIAL.
NATURALIST'S HOME
ENDOWED."
Me. George. Buckston Browne, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of the Society of Antiquaries, London, having acquired Darwin's how. Down House, in the County of Kent. from Prof. C. G. Darwin, grandson of the naturalist, has Einnsferred its possession to the British Association under the most liberal conditions, and with an endowment amply sufficient for its maintenatee and preservation for all time. The Association have issued a full "description" of the house, and from it "the subjoined particulars have been extracted.
At present Down House serves as a private school. When the ten ant's lease falls in or is acquired, Mr. Buckston Browne desires that the property be regarded as a gilt to the nation and opened to visitors every day of the week between the hours of 10 and 8, without charge. He also desires that the Association should
Down House and
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HONG KONG POLICÈ RESERVE.
(ORDERS BY THE HON, MB, M.' D; C. WOLFE, C.K.G., CAPTAIN SUPER- INTENDENT OF POLICE]
Grand Tattoo-October 4th, 5th And 6th. The following Memo is published for information of all ranks:---
"The C.S.P. wishes to convey his hearty appreciation and grate- ful thanks for the most excellent work, on the three nights of the performance af all ranks of the Hong Kong Police Reserve engag ed an special duty in connection with the Tattoo.
2-43 member of the "Tattoo" Working Committee and particularly as Chairman of the General Services Committes, the C.S.P. wishes further to thank all Palice Reserve officers on duty at the entrance to the Tattoo Ground for their most valuable assistance in checking tickets.'
(Sgd.), E. D. (1 Wour, C.S.P. October 9th, 1928)'
Police Training School. The weekly élasses for Police Reservists at the. Police Training School, Kowloon, will be held as usual on Tuesdays, October 16th and 23rd, at 6 p.m. sharp.
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Thus a handbill thrust into my tent (writes a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian) from the institution which is our pride, the Great Frontive Kinema. Ir the midst of barren rock and desert our littlo cantonment, with its fort like an ancient citadel, lies, like an emerald on
heap of ashes, irrigated by water brought from many miles away, to which we daily offer our blessing for the flowers and trees we enjoy, so that we almost forget that a mile away the land is parched, and bare. We have our days on which the water may be diverted into our gardens to water the rosea and peas, which we watch so anxiously. Through- out the day's heat native men, wo- meu, and children may he seen ground, far the benefit of science.
washing in the water, the children The donor has also suggested that
with the abbreviated shirt which is certain of the rooms-particularly
their only garment held up while the old study, in which the
they squat down and splash. Origin of Species" was written,
and
Along the roads stroll soldiers should be furnished, as near as my
Pathan raiders of great comeliness civiliana: Hindu babus, I possible, as they were when Dar
and an air of devil-may-care that win lived in them. He has already
at once wins the susceptible heart taken steps to secure this end, and
of the new-enmer; heavily veiled has obtained the willing co-opera-
huc graceful Mohammedan women tion and greatest assistance from various members of the Darwin
Chinese Company.
from the mountains; Sikhs and family. Indeed, without the gener-
Commendation: Constable R7ranging in colour from darkest Punjabis, gay and debonair, all eus co-operation of the Darwin Frank SY. Wong is highly com chocolate to the ruddy brown of the family the transfer of ownership ended by the CSP for the wazir, who looks like a bronzed eould not have been effected. The prompt action taken by him on Sep Englishman.
Mre. Litelitel, the third tember 25th, which led to the arrest just a handful of Europeans, in Amongst these are daughty of Charles Darwin, be of a thief, who had watched auding some quated for Down House her from a European lady on children to be seen anywhere, be father's study chair and letter Chine Road; the snatcher was sub cause the climate in winter is már- weighing machine, Mr. Buckston sequently sentenced to six months' vellous, and in the hot weather Bruwne has commissioned the Hon.] hard labour and 12 strokes.
quite impossible for children, so John Collier to paint replicas of
that they are obliged to go to the y well-known portraits of Darwin
hills. and of Huxley to be hung at Down Ionse, commissions already com- plete.
Squad Drill.
All recruits of the Chinese and Indian Companies, and of the Flying Squad will parade at Central Police station on Thursday, October 19th. at 5.30 p.m. sharp for Squad Drill under Sergt. Condon. Dress: Mufti
All advanced men of the Chinese Company will attend at the Central Police Station on Thursday. October isth, at 5.30 p.m. sharp for Bife Exercises, Extended Order and Batan Drill under Sgt. B. J. Hunt. Dress: Muftis rifle, belt, side arms, and truncheon to be carried.
Indian Company, tullah and R244 N. N. Zaveri having Strength: Constables R220 Inaya- left the Colony for good, have been track off the strength of the Indian Company as from October ist.
Parade:All ranks of the Indian Company will parade at Police Headquarters on Tuesday, October 23rd, for drill under Sergt. Condos. Fall in at 5.30 pm sharp. Dress: White uniform, belt and cap with white cover. No member may be absent from this parade without leave from the Company Cam- mander,
of the healthiest
Strings of enmels trail along, passing through with their mer- chandise or human loads on their way to the plains, and every year. as the cold weather approaches and life in the hills becomes too cold even for the hardy Afghan, carn. vans pass through conveying whole there, encampments villages to warmer quarters. Once and the
are pitched women, children, aad camels left for the winter, while make their way to the coast, there to take ship for Aus- tralia, where, in the mines, they find well-paid work which ensures a life of wealth and ease for the rest of the year after their return home Buffaloes and bullocks stroll along leisurely: the only animals to hurry are the little ponies who draw the tongas (the curious ill-
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It is hoped that the shelves of the old study may be filled with all editions of Darwin's works: and that Down Hou may became a Darwiniana where students will have an opportunity of consulting a original documents concerning Darwin and his writings. Such an end can be attained only if the British Association succeeds in en- listing the sympathetic co-opera-; tion of all who may be the for- tunate owners of articles which were in the possession of Darwin or were associated with his life.
It may not be amies to recount some of the circumstances which led up to the appeal for the preser- vation of Darwin's home. Some years before his death, the late Sif Arthur Shipley, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, where Darwin was in undergraduate, wrote to a member of the British Association as follows: "It seems to me that Down-House ought to be a nationui possession. Do you know of any means by which this can be brought
The Perimeter Wire." about?"On the eve of the Leeds
Constable R316 Chan Tze Fai in meeting of the British Association,
All around the cantonment, Hong Kong Section, as from Octo-about three miles in circumference, on August 31st of last year, the Council of the Association consider-
runs the "perimeter wire," The weekly instructional patrol heavy barrier of barbed wire, ed this matter and empowered the
of the Kowloon Section will take punctuated at intervals by great then president (Sir Arthur Keith) to make a public appeal at the close place on Tuesday, October 16th. spiked gates patrolled from dusk of his presidential addreas, with Fall in at the Tsimtsatsui Fire to dawn by sentries, during which the happy result which all now Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp time no one may pass out or in;
Housekeeping., know. It was with as much ur-Dress: Khaki uniform,
beyond this perimeter no European The weekly instructional patrol of woman may at any time go with.
There is no servant problem, and prise As satisfaction that Sir
the Hong Kong Section will take out, escort. Arthur Keith learned that the man
Frequent raids take with a good bearer one's household The very who answered the call was a fellow place on Thursday, October 18th place, and elaborate instructions runs on oiled wheels of his own College. Indeed, he Fall in at the Central Police Station are published in case of anything careful housewife weighs out every. the knew Mr. Buckston Browne as a at 5:15 p.m. sharp. Dress Khaki serious happening, as abduction is ounce of four and counts generous benefactor to that College uniform. and to the Harveian Society, "but Sharpshooters' Company. » was unaware of his love for Darwin
and for Down. It was later than he learned that Darwin's friend" Huxley had long ago exerted an abiding influence on the donor of
Down,
balanced, "two-wheeled car that Flying Squad.
serves as the local taxi) in which we all travel, and over whose fure, Strength: The following recruits though officially regulated, #C have been taken on the strength haggle every time we make а of the Flying Squad and posted as journey. The tonga-wallah” is under-
always poor mao, and the Constable R338 'Robert Chan to honoured sahib will want to give 'Kowloon Section, as from October | baksheesh."
10th.
ber 19th.
Hong Kong, October 16th, 1929.
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sun, and though no soap is used the results are better than those de-
"scientific laundry livered by a
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ut home.
All the rest of the work is "done
The
a continua threat, and authority potatoes as they go into the pot, quietly and unseen by the proper has no desire to be troubled with but most of us know the truth of people; the sweeper sweeps and Night Firing Practice: Night the need to send out a rescue party the Eastern provers "Is a little cleans, the bhistie brings the water, Ilevolver Practice will be carried out for memsahib who has carelessly oil spilled? Is a little corn stolen the misalchi washes up, and dusts It is the price of tranquillity," and runs errands and is generally allowed herself to be carried off. on Kennedy Road Range on the Beyond the perimeter, lies the and are content with a daily visit at the beek and call of the khit- 24th. át. 3 p.m. evening of Wednesday, October" city," with enormous mud walls from the khansama or cook with mutgar (butler) and the bearer, Members will as and an indescribably filthy bazaar his account. Potatoes, five an under, whose eagle eye all the Five Banas," you say others work. Owing to the rigidi- Darwin was born at Shrewsbury semble at the range at that time with open stalls, where the owners nas."
with revolvere, belts and holsters.
stern uplifted squat, smoking their hookah sur-
eyebrow ties of caste no man will, "or" can, on February 12, 1509; Down
"That's rubbish; think again. undërtake another's work, but House was purchased for him by
(Sgd.) W. KENT, A.5.P., rounded by their wares, which are:
should any of this host of myrmi- his father, Dr. Darwin, and he look
Adjutant.
spread out on the ground-food, Very philosophically comes the re-
and dons leave one need feel no pangs clothing, saddlery, and the nonde-ply, Potatoes, two annas, up his residence there on, September
script rubbish accumulated for non it goes on, very profitably for In half an hour a crowd ofwould.. 14th, 1812. Darwin was then in nis
known purpose.
the khungama if the mistress is in- he servants is at the door, thirtieth year; three years previous
Orders for the day given Inside the cantonment we live in experiented, and very fairly if she ly he had married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood. His two eldest chil
researches on the zoology of the what accommodation, we are lucky has a sense of value and knows the quarter looks after itself, meals ar...
ezg. When he rive to time, unexpected guests are Beagle, on "Structure and Dis enough to receive; bungalows for capacity of au dren, William and and Anne, were
some, for the majority tents. Any reaches the end of his account and dealt with, clothes put away and born in London, the third, Mary, tribution of Coral Reefs," and pre- was born and died just after arrival | pared new edition of his one can live a civilised life in a realises that he has made only baths prepared, so that the day is Journal of a Naturalist." Be bungalow, but it takes a little in-about three annas he makes his last | free for one's own interests, and at-Down. Then followed in 1843 Henrietta, who became Mrs. Litchfore he settled down to work at genuity to make a tent habitable. throw, and hazards Twenty-two woe betide the woman who has no
It is also difficult, in tents to re- cggs-four for breakfast, three for children or other resources in her field in 1945, George, who became barnacles, to which he gave seven
sand-self. The club is very small, and Sir George Darwin, and whose son, years (1847-54), he prepared his gulate the temperature; in winter macaroni cheese, two for
we shiver round a smoky fire, and wiches, two for savory, two for cus offers only tennis and golf in a Prof. C. G. Darwin, succeeded to papers on volcanic islands and on the ownership of Down and is the the geology of South America, is spride and autume almost gasp tard, and (with a rapid calcula small way; there are no sllops or tion) nine for eggs." One patient cafés, and walks are very restrict- fifth of a succession of father and Preparations for the Origin of with the heat.
The local Belfridge is Balu Daa, ly knocks one off the custard, one ed. To anyone interested in Jan. now who have been vicated fellows Species, which did not receive its He hires furniture, sells motor off the macaroni cheese, and finally guages there is a vast field for in- of the Royal Society-a unique re- final form until 1858-59, went on cord; in 1847 Elizabeth was born; continuously from 1849 onwards.cars, and runs the only store. His comes down to twelve. With a re- teresting ploughing, as so many in the following year Francis, who Then followed his inquiries into cupboards and counters display a signed sigh he delivers his parting are spoken on the Frontier: Once little of everything; if you do not shot, Well, Huzoor, in future learned they are the key that un-. became Sir Francis Darwin-a dis-Fertilisations of Orchids" (1802); see what you want, ask for it and only two eggs in cake, but the best locks many human doors. All the tinguished botanist and president Variations of Animals and Plants of the British Association.. Leonard under Domestication" (1888), "Des it will be produced at a price. is not too good for sahih. He re people, whether high or lowly, followed in 1850-Major Leonard cent of Man" (1871), "Expression Prices are heart-breaking. Every tires to his cookhouse, where he value very highly a genuine in
thing costs far more than at home, does wonders with a closed in stove terest in their lives and customs;, Darwin, scientific worker, philan- of the Emotion (1872), "Move and it behoves the shopper to know which buras charcoal In the top no one is more, hospitable than the thropist, and the founder and still ments and Habits of Climbing the approximate value of the ar- of the stove are holes on which the Pathan if he feels, you trust him; active supporter of the Eugenics Plants" (1876); "Insectivorous ticle the would buy or it may soar various pans are placed, with chars home life is delightful, and Society. Then came Horace, now Plants" appeared in the Sir Horace Darwin, happily, still | year),
"Cross and: Self-Fertilisa beyond all reason. Then begins the coal on their llae, and how the deli- any number of hours of study are never stale Oriental game of bar cious meals are produced probably repaid by more intimate know alive; and last, number 10, Charles Lion" in 1870, and his last work of gaining
"Twelve.
Rub-no European Has ever been able to ledge of the people among whom
fathom. Waring Darwin, who died in child. all, one which was begun soon after bish, il give for s The re-
one's lot is cast. The Pathana have Then comes a visit from the no medical knowledge, and al hood. Down was the home of a he settled at Down, The Forma-ply may be either As your honour large and happy family, perhaps tion of Vegetable Mould through will or a stubborn refusal to dhobi, who is the laundry and though they love their children the most gifted family ever born the Action of Worma."
abate one pice; much depends on Achille Serre combined. He squats deeply, they are ignorants of the on the floor and counts over the simplest principles of child, care; England. There the grent No single home in the world can the size of last month's account or naturalist died on April 19th, 1882, slow such a record. Truly, from whether one happens to have en-washings if required lie will press a woman who cures an obstinate wardrobe between cough or brings a fever down is re- In that period Darwin made his Down, Charles Darwin shopk the tored the shop on the right or one's entire
and: afternoon The garded as heaven-seat and a sure, first draft of the "Origin of world and gave human thought an wrong side of the owner's little morning
clothes are washed in one of the sign of the friendship of the Species(1842); he wrote his impress which will endure for a dose of opium.
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