182 FOUNDATIONS OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, [ch. ix. 



who would go thoroughly into the subject, and think of 

 the bearing of the passages marked in the books and copied 

 out [on ?] scraps of paper, then let my sketch be published 

 as it is, stating that it was done several years ago * and from 

 memory without consulting any works, and with no inten- 

 tion of publication in its present form." 



The idea that the Sketch of 1844 might remain, in the 

 event of his death, as the only record of his work, seems to 

 have been long in his mind, for in August 1854, when he 

 had finished with the Cirripedes, and was thinking of begin- 

 ning his " species work," he added on the back of the above 

 letter, " Hooker by far best man to edit my species volume. 

 August 1854." 



* The words " several years ago and," seem to have been added at a later 

 date. 



