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eminently unselfish " (p. 291). " I have laughed at Woodward 

 thinking that you were a man who could be influenced in your 

 judgment by the voice of the public " (p. 331). " I especially want 

 your advice on one point, and you know I think you the wisest 

 of men, and I shall be absolutely guided by your advice " (p. 349). 

 " My dear Lyell, I have been most deeply interested by your letter. 

 You seem to have done the grandest work, and made the greatest 

 step, of any one with respect to man " (p. 364). 



I suppose no one in this world has ever been more 

 liberally or more lavishly thanked, liattered, and be- 

 praised than the recipients of the above. I fancy also 

 that with whatever satisfaction any one of them may 

 have received his own letters, he of them who is still 

 alive must now, when he sees the rest, somewhat ruefully 

 wonder which of them was really the one to Mr. Darwin 

 who, as a lawyer, was to make a gigantic fortune and 

 rise to be the Lord High Chancellor of England ! But 

 yet, probably, for all that, not one of them was, in the 

 circumstances, thanked, nattered, and bepraised, for his 

 deserts, too much. Carpenter had earned his place by 

 his well-welcomed articles in the National, and Medico- 

 Chirurgical, Reviews. Asa Gray had been incessantly 

 and indefatigably active. Articles and Reviews with- 

 out number he had written, as in the Atlantic Monthly, 

 the Annals of Natural History, Sillirnans Journal, etc. 

 etc., besides superintending reprints in America, speaking 

 at meetings, putting together pamphlets, etc. etc. Sir 

 J. D. Hooker had a quite similar record : he too had 

 both written and spoken, warmly in the one case, loudly 

 in the other (as to the British Association at Notting- 

 ham in 1866, to the British Association as its President 

 at Norwich in 1868, and in reply to Bishop Wilberforce 

 at Oxford in the " tremendous " meeting of the British 

 Association, 1860, etc. etc., almost ad infinitum). He 

 was of signal service to Mr. Darwin, too, when he drew 

 up alongside of Sir Charles Lyell at the great meeting of 



