102 WORK ON 'MAN.' [l868. 



How about photographs ? Can you spare time for a line 

 to our dear Mrs. Cameron ?* She came to see us off, and 

 loaded us with presents of photographs, and Erasmus called 

 after her, " Mrs. Cameron, there are six people in this house 

 all in love with you." When I paid her, she cried out, " Oh, 

 what a lot of money ! " and ran to boast to her husband. 



I must not write any more, though I am in tremendous 

 spirits at your brilliant success. 



Yours ever affectionately, 



C. Darwin. 



[In the AthencEum of November 29, 1868, appeared an 

 article which was in fact a reply to Sir Joseph Hooker's 

 remarks at Norwich. He seems to have consulted my father 

 as to the wisdom of answering the article. My father wrote 

 to him on December 1 : — 



" In my opinion Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker need take no 

 notice of the attack in the Athenaum in reference to Mr. 

 Charles Darwin. What an ass the man is, to think he cuts 

 one to the quick by giving one's Christian name in full. How 

 transparently false is the statement that my sole groundwork 

 is from pigeons, because I state I have worked them out more 

 fully than other beings ! He muddles together two books of 

 Flourens." 



The following letter refers to a paperf by Judge Caton, of 

 which my father often spoke with admiration :] 



C. Darwin to John D. Caton. 



Down, September 18, 1868. 



Dear Sir, — I beg leave to thank you very sincerely for 

 your kindness in sending me, through Mr. Walsh, your 

 admirable paper on American Deer. 



* See Vol. III. p. 92. 1868. By John D. Caton, late 



t 'Transactions of the Ottawa Chief Justice of Illinois. 

 Academy of Natural Sciences,' 



