1 868.] M. GAUDRY. 87 



cliches of the woodcuts for 22 thalers ; Mr. Murray has 

 agreed to bring out a translation (and he is our best publisher) 

 on commission, for he would not undertake the work on his 

 own risk ; and I have agreed with Mr. W. S. Dallas (who 

 has translated Von Siebold on Parthenogenesis, and many 

 German works, and who writes very good English) to 

 translate the book. He thinks (and he is a good judge) that 

 it is important to have some few corrections or additions, 

 in order to account for a translation appearing so lately [i.e. 

 at such a long interval of time] after the original ; so that I 

 hope you will be able to send some 



[Two letters may be placed here, as bearing on the spread 

 of Evolutionary ideas in France and Germany :] 



C. Darwin to A. Gandry. 



Down, January 21 [1868]. 



Dear Sir, — I thank you for your interesting essay on the 



influence of the Geological features of the country on the 



mind and habits of the Ancient Athenians,* and for your 



very obliging letter. I am delighted to hear that you intend 



to consider the relations of fossil animals in connection with 



their genealogy ; it will afford you a fine field for the exercise 



of your extensive knowledge and powers of reasoning. Your 



belief will I suppose, at present, lower you in the estimation 



of your countrymen ; but judging from the rapid spread in 



all parts of Europe, excepting France, of the belief in the 



common descent of allied species, I must think that this 



belief will before long become universal. How strange it is 



that the country which gave birth to Buffon, the elder 



Geoffrey, and especially to Lamarck, should now cling 



so pertinaciously to the belief that species are immutable 



creations. 



* This appears to refer to M. Gaudry's paper translated in the ' Geol. 

 Mag.,' 1868, p. 372. 



