"ART OF TRAVEL" 163 



Hints to Travellers issued by the Geographical 

 Society, which has long since quite outgrown its 

 original form, all its chapters having been rewritten, 

 each of them by experts. In its present shape it is 

 a most trustworthy guide to travellers for such instru- 

 mental and other scientific work as they need to be 

 acquainted with. The Anthropological " Notes and 

 Queries " are a similar and most useful compendium 

 relating to that branch of science. I had some share 

 in this, but by no means a large one. 



I cannot resist quoting the following letter from 

 my cousin Charles Darwin, the great naturalist, whose 

 opinion as the author of the Voyage of the Beagle 

 was naturally valued by me most highly. I had 

 asked him for hints while engaged on the first edition 

 of the Art of Travel, and sent him a copy of it, to 

 which he now refers. This was four years before the 

 publication of the Origin of Species : 



"DowN,/a. 10, ?i855 



"My dear Galton, I received your kind 

 present yesterday. I always thought your idea of 

 your Book a very good one, and that you would do 

 it capitally, and from what I have seen my forethought 

 is, I am sure, quite justified. I hope that your 

 volume will have a large sale, but what I fully expect 

 is that it will have a long sale, and if you save from 

 some disasters half a dozen explorers, I feel sure that 

 you will think yourself well rewarded for all the 

 trouble your volume must have cost you. Believe me, 

 my dear Galton, yours very truly, C. Darwin " 



The outbreak of the Crimean War showed the 

 helplessness of our soldiers in the most elementary 

 matters of camp-life. Believing that something could 



