JST. 57.] TO CHARLES DARWIN. 561 



Mr. Fraser, you may be sure, is very much thought 

 of here. 



I hope that Dr. Hooker, of Kew, has sent on to you 

 the numbers of the " Nation," which I have for a 

 year or more regularly posted to him, originally re- 

 questing he should do so. But it is quite likely the 

 busy man has forgotten all about it. 



For myself, I have passed my fifty-seventh anni- 

 versary, in firm health, feeling my age only in a 

 treacherous memory as respects names, etc., not as 

 to events or friends. The memory of our delightful 

 visit to Oxford is ever fresh. 



TO CHARLES DARWIN. 



February 24, 1868. 



The other evening here I discoursed at our private 

 club, by giving them an abstract of the chapters on 

 Inheritance and Pangenesis ; the former for Professor 

 Bowen's benefit. He and Agassiz took it all very 

 well; and pangenesis seemed to strike all of us as 

 being as good an hypothesis as one can now make. . . . 



On inside of leaf of Dionasa see the copious glands 

 for secreting gastric juice. 



... I do not wonder at your book l being taken up 

 at once, by the great numbers of people who need and 

 understand it, and the thousands who jump at any- 

 thing written by so notorious a writer as you are. The 

 "Origin " will sell anything ; and I believe people will 

 get more for their money in this book than in even 

 that, if they care for facts, which generally they do 

 not. 



1 The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication, by 

 Charles Darwin : London, 1868. Republisbed by American Agri- 

 culturist : New York. 



