i860.] wollaston's review. 285 



have written to him, and told him that the " pestilent " fellow 

 thanks him for his kind manner of speaking about him. I 

 have also told him that he would be pleased to hear that the 

 Bishop of Oxford says it is the most unphilosophical * work 

 he ever read. The review seems to me clever, and only mis- 

 interprets me in a few places. Like all hostile men, he passes 

 over the explanation given of Classification, Morphology, 

 Embryology, and Rudimentary Organs, &c. I read Wallace's 

 paper in MS.,f and thought it admirably good ; he does not 

 know that he has been anticipated about the depth of inter- 

 vening sea determining distribution. . . . The most curious 

 point in the paper seems to me that about the African 

 character of the Celebes productions, but I should require 

 further confirmation. . . . 



Henslow is staying here ; I have had some talk with him ; 

 he is in much the same state as BunburyJ and will go a very 

 little way with us, but brings up no real argument against going 

 further. He also shudders at the eye ! It is really curious 

 (and perhaps is an argument in our favour) how differently 

 different opposers view the subject. Henslow used to rest his 

 opposition on the imperfection of the Geological Record, 

 but he now thinks nothing of this, and says I have got well 

 out of it ; I wish I could quite agree with him. Baden Powell 

 says he never read anything so conclusive as my statement 

 about the eye ! ! A stranger writes to me about sexual selec- 

 tion, and regrets that I boggle about such a trifle as the brush 

 of hair on the male turkey, and so on. As L. Jenyns has 

 a really philosophical mind, and as you say you like to see 

 everything, I send an old letter of his. In a later letter to 

 Henslow, which I have seen, he is more candid than any 

 opposer I have heard of, for he says, though he cannot go so 



* Another version of the words f " On the Zoological Geography- 

 is given by Lyell, to whom they of the Malay Archipelago." Linn, 

 were spoken, viz. "the most il- Soc. Journ. i860, 

 logical book ever written." ' Life/ X The late Sir Charles Bunbury, 

 vol. ii. p. 358. well known as a Palaso-botanist. 



