40 PUBLICATION OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' [1859. 



on the first day, and now my publisher is printing off, as 



rapidly as possible^ 3000 more copies. I mention this solely 



because it renders probable a remunerative sale in America. 



I should be infinitely obliged if you could aid an American 



reprint ; and could make, for my sake and the publisher's, 



any arrangement for any profit. The new edition is only a 



reprint, yet I have made a few important corrections. I will 



have the clean sheets sent over in a few days of as many 



sheets as are printed off, and the remainder afterwards, and 



you can do anything you like, — if nothing, there is no harm 



done. 1 should be glad for the new edition to be reprinted 



and not the old. — In great haste, and with hearty thanks, 



Yours very sincerely, 



C. Darwin. 

 I will write soon again. 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Down, 22nd [December, 1859]. 



My dear Lyell, — Thanks about ''Bears," * a word of 

 ill-omen to me. 



I am too unwell to leave home, so shall not see you. 



I am very glad of your remarks on Hooker, f I have 

 not yet got the essay. The parts which I read in sheets 

 seemed to me grand, especially the generalization about the 

 Australian flora itself. How superior to Robert Brown's 

 celebrated essay ! I have not seen Naudin's paper,]; and 

 shall not be able till I hunt the libraries. I am very anxious 



* See ' Origin,' cd. i., p. 184. 



f Sir C. Lyell wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker, Dec. 19, 1859 (' Life,' ii. p. 

 327) : " I have just finished the reading of your splendid Essay [the 

 ' Flora of Australia '] on the origin of species, as illustrated by your wide 

 botanical experience, and think it goes very far to raise the variety-making 

 hypothesis to the rank of a theory, as accounting for the manner in which 

 new species enter the world." 



X " Revue Horticole,' 1852 See Historical Sketch in the later edi- 

 tions of the ' Origin of Species.' 



