1 863.] 



THE 'ATHENAEUM.' 



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forgotten),* who writes to De Candolle that he is sure that 

 my views will ultimately prevail. But I did not intend to 

 have written all this. It satisfies me with the final results, 

 but this result, I begin to see, will take two or three life- 

 times. The entomologists are enough to keep the subject 

 back for half a century. I really pity your having to 

 balance the claims of so many eager aspirants for notice ; it 

 is clearly impossible to satisfy all. . . . Certainly I was struck 

 with the full and due honour you conferred on Falconer. 

 I have just had a note from Hooker. ... I am heartily glad 

 that you have made him so conspicuous ; he is so honest, so 

 candid, and so modest. . . . 



I have read . I could find nothing to lay hold of, 



which in one sense I am very glad of, as I should hate a 

 controversy ; but in another sense I am very sorry for, as 

 I long to be in the same boat with all my friends. ... I am 

 heartily glad the book is going off so well. 



Ever yours, 



C. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [March 29, 1863]. 



. . . Many thanks for Athenceum, received this morning, 

 and to be returned to-morrow morning. Who would have 

 ever thought of the old stupid Athenceum taking to Oken-like 

 transcendental philosophy written in Owenian style ! f . . . . 



* The Marquis de Saporta. 



f This refers to a review of Dr. 

 Carpenter's ' Introduction to the 

 study of Foraminifera,' that ap- 

 peared in the Athenceum of 

 March 28, 1863 (p. 417). The re- 

 viewer attacks Dr. Carpenter's 

 views in as much as they support 

 the doctrine of Descent ; and he 

 upholds spontaneous generation 

 (Heterogeny) in place of what Dr. 



VOL. III. 



Carpenter, naturally enough, be- 

 lieved in, viz. the genetic connec- 

 tion of living and extinct Foramini- 

 fera. In the next number is a letter 

 by Dr. Carpenter, which chiefly 

 consists of a protest against the 

 reviewer's somewhat contemptuous 

 classification of Dr. Carpenter and 

 my father as disciple and master. 

 In the course of the letter Dr. Car- 

 penter says — p. 461 : — 



C 



