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should have heard what they think about the new Bill. I see Letter 275 

 that you are one of the secretaries to this young Society. 



To H. N. Moseley. 1 Letter 276 



Down, Nov. 22nd [1876]. 



It is very kind of you to send me the Japanese books, 

 which are extremely curious and amusing. My son Frank is 

 away, but I am sure he will be much obliged for the two 

 papers which you have sent him. 



Thanks, also, for your interesting note. It is a pity that 

 Peripatus* is so stupid as to spit out the viscid matter at the 

 wrong end of its body ; it would have been beautiful thus to 

 have explained the origin of the spider's web. 



Naphtali Lewy to C. Darwin. Letter 277 



The following letter refers to a book, Toledoth Adam, written by a 

 learned Jew with the object of convincing his co-religionists of the truth 

 of the theory of evolution. The translation we owe to the late Henry 

 Bradshaw, University Librarian at Cambridge. The book is unfortunately 

 no longer to be found in Mr. Darwin's library. 



[1876]. 



To the Lord, the Prince, who " stands for an ensign of the 

 people" (Isa. xi. 10), the Investigator of the generation, the 

 "bright son of the morning" (Isa. xiv. 12), Charles Darwin, 

 may he live long ! 



" From the rising of the sun and from the west" (Isa. xlv. 

 6) all the nations know concerning the Torah 3 (Theory) 

 which has " proceeded from thee for a light of the people " 



1 Henry Nottidge Moseley, F.R.S. (1844-91), was an undergraduate 

 of Exeter College, Oxford, and afterwards studied medicine at University 

 College, London. In 1872 he was appointed one of the naturalists on 

 the scientific staff of the Challenger, and in 1881 succeeded his friend 

 and teacher, Professor Rolleston, as Linacre Professor of Human and 

 Comparative Anatomy at Oxford. Moseley's Notes by a Natiiralist on 

 the Challenger, London, 1879, was ne ^ i n high estimation by Darwin, to 

 whom it was dedicated. (See Life and Letters, III., pp. 237-38.) 



2 Moseley " On the Structure and Development QiPeripatus capensis" 

 (Phil Trans. R. Soc., Vol. 164, p. 757, 1874). "When suddenly handled 

 or irritated, they (i.e. Peripatus) shoot out fine threads of a remarkably 

 viscid and tenacious milky fluid . . . projected from the tips of the oral 

 papillae" (p. 759). 



3 Lit, instruction. The Torah is the Pentateuch, strictly speaking, the 

 source of all knowledge. 



