18591863] FRANCtS GALTON 



To C. Lyell. Letter 8 1 



[Dec. 5th, 1859.] 



I forget whether you take in the Times ; for the chance 

 of your not doing so, I send the enclosed rich letter. 1 It is, 

 I am sure, by Fitz-Roy. ... It is a pity he did not add his 

 theory of the extinction of Mastodon, etc., from the door of 

 the Ark being made too small. 2 



Francis Galton to Charles Darwin. Letter 82 



42, Rutland Gate, London, S.W., Dec. 9th, 1859. 

 Pray let me add a word of congratulation on the com- 

 pletion of your wonderful volume, to those which I am sure 

 you will have received from every side. I have laid it down 

 in the full enjoyment of a feeling that one rarely experiences 

 after boyish days, of having been initiated into an entirely 

 new province of knowledge, which, nevertheless, connects 

 itself with other things in a thousand ways. I hear you 

 are engaged on a second edition. There is a trivial error in 

 page 68, about rhinoceroses, 3 which I thought I might as well 

 point out, and have taken advantage of the same opportunity 

 to scrawl down half a dozen other notes, which may, or may 

 not, be worthless to you. 



The three next letters refer to Huxley's lecture on Evolution, given at 

 the Royal Institution on Feb. zoth, 1860, of which the peroration is given 

 in Life and Letters, II., p. 282, together with some letters on the subject. 



To T. H. Huxley. Letter 83 



Nov. 25th [1859]. 



I rejoice beyond measure at the lecture. I shall be at 

 home in a fortnight, when I could send you splendid folio 



1 See the Times, Dec. ist and Dec. 5th, 1859 : two letters signed 

 " Senex," dealing with " Works of Art in the Drift." 



2 A postscript to this letter, here omitted, is published in the Life and 

 Letters, II., p. 240. 



3 Darwin (loc. tit.) says that neither the elephant nor the rhinoceros 

 is destroyed by beasts of prey. Mr. Galton wrote that the wild dogs 

 hunt the young rhinoceros and " exhaust them to death ; they pursue 

 them all day long, tearing at their ears, the only part their teeth can 

 fasten on." The reference to the rhinoceros is omitted in later editions 



of the Origin. 



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