498 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1863, 



able articles are very needful, when they can be had, 

 for a journal which, like Silliman's, cannot exist with- 

 out popular support. I promised an article of sixteen 

 pages of this character ; but I intended to enlarge 

 more at the close upon the genius and influence of 

 your father, and cite your parallel with Linnaeus as 

 portrayed by Fabricius. But I found that my pages 

 were filled before I was aware of it, and I had to cut 

 short, much too curtly. It left me with a somehow 

 dissatisfied feeling. All your remarks about the dif- 

 ference between the profound and the prolific bota- 

 nists, I agree to ; and I think that both Linnaeus and 

 De Candolle had as much genius as Robert Brown. . . . 



Well, as to origin of species, you have now gone 

 just about as far as I have, in Darwinian direction, 

 and both of us have been led step by step by the 

 facts and probabilities, and have not jumped at con- 

 clusions. 



I shall be curious to see Mme. Royer's book ; Dar- 

 win has spoken of her. 



Under my hearty congratulations of Darwin for his 

 striking contributions to teleology, there is a vein of 

 petite malice, from my knowing well that he rejects 

 the idea of design, while all the while he is bringing 

 out the neatest illustrations of it ! 



Did time allow, I should like to write at large upon 

 these enticing topics. . . . 



TO W. J. HOOKER. 



CAMBRIDGE, March 16, 1863. 



I received this morning a letter from William Short, 

 announcing to me the death of his lamented father, 

 our excellent friend, Dr. C. W. Short, of Louisville, 

 Kentucky, one of our oldest botanists, and one of the 



