l68 SPREAD OF EVOLUTION. |^i86i. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



2 Hesketh Crescent, Torquay, 



July 13 [1861], 



... I hope Harvey is better; I got his review* of me a 

 day or two ago, from which I infer he must be convalescent ; 

 it's very good and fair ; but it is funny to see a man argue on 

 the succession of animals from Noah's Deluge ; as God did 

 not then wholly destroy man, probably he did not wholly 

 destroy the races of other animals at each geological period ! 

 I never expected to have a helping hand from the Old 

 Testament. . . . 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



2, Hesketh Crescent, Torquay, 



July 20 [1861]. 



My dear Lyell. — I sent you two or three days ago a 

 duplicate of a good review of the * Origin ' by a Mr. Maw,f 

 evidently a thoughtful man, as I thought you might like to 

 have it, as you have so many. . . . 



This is quite a charming place, and I have actually walked, 

 I believe, good two miles out and back, which is a grand 

 feat. 



I saw Mr. Pengelly X the other day, and was pleased at 

 his enthusiasm. I do not in the least know whether you are 

 in London. Your illness must have lost you much time, but 

 I hope you have nearly got your great job of the new edition 

 finished. You must be very busy, if in London, so I will be 



* The ' Dublin Hospital Gazette,' May 15, 1861. The passage re- 

 ferred to is at p. 150. 



f Mr. George Maw, of Benthall Hall. The review was published in 

 the ' Zoologist,' July, 1861. On the back of my father's copy is written, 

 " Must be consulted before new edit, of ' Origin ' " — words which are want- 

 ing on many more pretentious notices, on which frequently occur my 

 father's brief o/-, or "nothing new." 



% William Pengelly, the geologist, and well-known explorer of the 

 Devonshire caves. 



