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consequently ' brought up all standing ' by the revelations of 

 your admirable digest of the structure, classification and 

 relationships of a group of plants known to me hitherto only 

 as generic names, or little more. 



The many allusions you make to my father's British 

 Jungermanniae touch me deeply. What has always struck 

 me as most remarkable in all his drawings of Mosses and 

 Liverworts is, that they look alive. He had the gift of seeing 

 nature as she is, and transferring her to paper. 



I hope that Miss Fry will let me include her name with 

 yours in my appreciation of the excellence of her analyses 

 and her representation of these. 



Ever; dear Sir Edward, sincerely yours, 



Jos. D. HOOKER. 



Of the two books by Professor Judd mentioned below, 

 ' The Coming of Evolution ' is a succinct account of the lines 

 of thought that expanded through Lyell and Darwin into 

 a well-founded theory. It was suggested by the Darwin 

 centenary. 



' The Student's Lyell ' is a handbook to Geology adapted 

 from Lyell's great work. 



October 29, 1910. 



MY DEAR JUDD, I have twice read * The Coming of 

 Evolution,' and twice rejoiced that its authorship devolved 

 on you. 



I am impressed with the remarkable fulness and com- 

 pleteness of the narrative, and even more by the sense of 

 proportion that is displayed in the treatment of its main 

 features, their inter-dependence and strictly logical sequences. 

 I like also the swing of your style ; you trip only in saying so 

 much of me. 



Lady Hooker shares my view, and intends making 

 Xmas gifts of copies to her friends. 



I am very glad to see prominence given to Scrope's 

 labours and early views. I travelled over the scenes of his 

 labour with Huxley and a copy of his book, 1 when I dis- 

 covered the remains of ancient glaciers in Central France 

 (see Nature, xiii. 1876, p. 31), the source of which he angrily 



1 See p. 185 seq. 



