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C. Darwin to A. Newton* 



Down, February 9 [1870]. 



Dear Newton, — I suppose it would be universally held 

 extremely wrong for a defendant to write to a Judge to 

 express his satisfaction at a judgment in his favour ; and yet 

 I am going thus to act. I have just read what you have said 

 in the ' Record ' f about my pigeon chapters, and it has gratified 

 me beyond measure. I have sometimes felt a little dis- 

 appointed that the labour of so many years seemed to be 

 almost thrown away, for you are the first man capable of 

 forming a judgment (excepting partly Ouatrefages), who 

 seems to have thought anything of this part of my work. 

 The amount of labour, correspondence, and care, which the 

 subject cost me, is more than you could well suppose. I 

 thought the article in the Athenaeum was very unjust; but 

 now I feel amply repaid, and I cordially thank you for your 

 sympathy and too warm praise. What labour you have 

 bestowed on your part of the ' Record ' ! I ought to be ashamed 

 to speak of my amount of work. I thoroughly enjoyed the 

 Sunday which you and the others spent here, and 



I remain, dear Newton, yours very sincerely, 



Ch. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to A. R. Wallace. 



Down, February 27 [1868]. 



My dear Wallace, — You cannot well imagine how much 

 I have been pleased by what you say about ' Pangenesis.' 

 None of my friends will speak out. . . . Hooker,' as far as I 

 understand him, which I hardly do at present, seems to 

 think that the hypothesis is little more than saying that 

 organisms have such and such potentialities. What you 



* Prof, of Zoology at Cambridge. 



f ' Zoological Record.' The volume for 1868, published Dec. 1869. 



