18641869] HACK EL 277 



apricots by " bud-variation " ! How ignorant we are ! But Letter 196 

 with the many good observers now living our children's 

 children will be less ignorant, and that is a comfort. 



To T. H. Huxley. Letter 197 



Down, Jan. 7th [1867]. 



Very many thanks for your letter, which has told me 

 exactly what I wanted to know. I shall give up all 

 thoughts of trying to get the book l translated, for I am 

 well convinced that it would be hopeless without too great 

 an outlay. I much regret this, as 1 should think the work 

 would be useful, and I am sure it would be to me, as I 

 shall never be able to wade through more than here and 

 there a page of the original. To all people I cannot but 

 think that the number of new terms would be a great evil. 

 I must write to him. I suppose you know his address, but 

 in case you do not, it is " to care of Signor Nicolaus 

 Krohn, Madeira." I have sent the MS. of my big book, 2 

 and horridly, disgustingly big it will be, to the printers, but 

 I do not suppose it will be published, owing to Murray's 

 idea on seasons, till next November. I am thinking of a 

 chapter on Man, as there has lately been so much said 

 on Natural Selection in relation to man. I have not seen 

 the Duke's 3 (or Dukelet's ? how can you speak so of a 

 living real Duke ?) book, but must get it from Mudie, as 

 you say he attacks us. 



P.S. Nature never made species mutually sterile by 

 selection, nor will men. 



To E. Hackel. Letter 198 



Down, Jan. 8th [1867]. 



I received some weeks ago your great work 4 ; I have 

 read several parts, but I am too poor a German scholar and 

 the book is too large for me to read it all. I cannot 

 tell you how much I regret this, for I am sure that nearly 



1 Hackel's Generelle Morphologic, 1866. See Life and Letters, III., 

 pp. 67, 68. 



2 The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 1868. 



3 The Reign of Law (1867), by the late Duke of Argyll. See Lite 

 and Letters, III., p. 65. 



4 Generelle Morphologic, 1866. 



