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Letter no About sudden jumps : I have no objection to them they 

 would aid me in some cases. All I can say is, that I went 

 into the subject, and found no evidence to make me believe 

 in jumps; and a good deal pointing in the other direction. 

 You will find it difficult (p. 14 of your letter) to make a 

 marked line of separation between fertile and infertile crosses. 

 I do not see how the apparently sudden change (for the 

 suddenness of change in a chrysalis is of course largely only 

 apparent) in larvae during their development throws any light 

 on the subject. 



I wish I could have made this letter better worth sending 

 to you. I have had it copied to save you at least the intoler- 

 able trouble of reading my bad handwriting. Again I thank 

 you for your great liberality and kindness in sending me 

 your criticisms, and I heartily wish we were a little nearer in 

 accord ; but we must remain content to be as wide asunder 

 as the poles, but without, thank God, any malice or other 

 ill-feeling. 



Letter in To T. H. Huxley. 



Dr. Asa Gray's articles in the Atlantic Monthly, July, August, and 

 October, 1860, were published in England as a pamphlet, and form 

 Chapter III. in his Darwiniana (1876). See Life and Letters, II., 

 p. 338. The article referred to in the present letter is that in the 



August number. 



Down, Sept.. loth [1860], 



I send by this post a review by Asa Gray, so good that 

 I should like you to see it ; I must beg for its return. I 

 want to ask, also, your opinion about getting it reprinted in 

 England. I thought of sending it to the Editor of the 

 Annals and Mag. of Nat. Plist., in which two hostile reviews 

 have appeared (although I suppose the Annals have a very 

 poor circulation), and asking them in the spirit of fair play 

 to print this, with Asa Gray's name, which I will take the 

 responsibility of adding. Also, as it is long, I would offer to 

 pay expenses. 



It is very good, in addition, as bringing in Pictet * so 

 largely. Tell me briefly what you think. 



What an astonishing expedition this is of Hooker's to 

 Syria ! God knows whether it is wise. 



1 Pictet (1809-72) wrote a "perfectly fair" review opposed to the 

 Origin. See Life and Letters, II., p. 297. 



