HO WORK ON 'MAN.' [1869. 



edition, one part will not agree with another, which would be 

 a great blemish. . . . 



[The desire that his views might spread in France was 

 always strong with my father, and he was therefore justly 

 annoyed to find that in 1869 the publisher of the first French 

 edition had brought out a third edition without consulting 

 the author. He was accordingly glad to enter into an 

 arrangement for a French translation of the fifth edition ; this 

 was undertaken by M. Reinwald, with whom he continued 

 to have pleasant relations as the publisher of many of his 

 books into French. 



He wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker : — 



" I must enjoy myself and tell you about Mdlle. C. Royer, 

 who translated the ' Origin ' into French, and for whose 

 second edition I took infinite trouble. She has now just 

 brought out a third edition without informing me, so that all 

 the corrections, &c, in the fourth and fifth English editions 

 are lost. Besides her enormously long preface to the first 

 edition, she has added a second preface abusing me like a 

 pickpocket for Pangenesis, which of course has no relation to 

 the ' Origin.' So I wrote to Paris ; and Reinwald agrees to 

 bring out at once a new translation from the fifth English 

 edition, in competition with her third edition. . . . This fact 

 shows that " evolution of species " must at last be spreading 

 in France." 



With reference to the spread of Evolution among the 

 orthodox, the following letter is of some interest. In March 

 he received, from the author, a copy of a lecture by Rev. T. 

 R. R. Stebbing, given before the Torquay Natural History 

 Society, February 1, 1869, bearing the title "Darwinism." 

 My father wrote to Mr. Stebbing :] 



Down, March 3, 1869. 

 Dear Sir, — I am very much obliged to you for your 

 kindness in sending me your spirited and interesting lecture ; 



