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and very bitter against Hooker. So we three enjoyed it 

 together. Not that I really enjoyed it, for it made me 

 uncomfortable for one night ; but I have got quite over it 

 to-day. It requires much study to appreciate all the bitter 

 spite of many of the remarks against me ; indeed I did not 

 discover all myself. It scandalously misrepresents many 

 parts. He misquotes some passages, altering words within 

 inverted commas. . . . 



It is painful to be hated in the intense degree with which 

 hates me. 



Now for a curious thing about my book, and then I have 

 done. In last Saturday's Gardeners Chronicle* a Mr. Patrick 

 Matthew publishes a long extract from his work on ' Naval 

 Timber and Arboriculture,' published in 1831, in which he 

 briefly but completely anticipates the theory of Natural Selec- 

 tion. I have ordered the book, as some few passages are 

 rather obscure, but it is certainly, I think, a complete but not 

 developed anticipation ! Erasmus always said that surely 

 this would be shown to be the case some day. Anyhow, one 

 may be excused in not having discovered the fact in a work 

 on Naval Timber. 



I heartily hope that your Torquay work may be successful. 

 Give my kindest remembrances to Falconer, and I hope he is 

 pretty well. Hooker and Huxley (with Mrs. Huxley) were 

 extremely pleasant. But poor dear Hooker is tired to death 

 of my book, and it is a marvel and a prodigy if you are not 

 worse tired if that be possible. Farewell, my dear Lyell, 



Yours affectionately, 



C. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [April 13th, i860]. 

 My DEAR HOOKER, Questions of priority so often lead to 

 odious quarrels, that I should esteem it a great favour if you 



* April 7th, i860. 



