1859-1863] LYELL 167 



How are you and all yours ? I hope you are not working Letter m 

 too hard. For Heaven's sake, think that you may become 

 such a beast as I am. How goes on the Nat. Hist. Review} 

 Talking of reviews, I damned with a good grace the review 

 in the Athenaeum l on Tyndall with a mean, scurvy allusion to 

 you. It is disgraceful about Tyndall, — in fact, doubting his 

 veracity. 



I am very tired, and hate nearly the whole world. So 

 good-night, and take care of your digestion, which means 

 brain. 



To C. Lyell. Letter 112 



15, Marine Parade, Eastbourne, 26th [Sept., i860]. 



It has just occurred to me that I took no notice of your 

 questions on extinction in St. Helena. I am nearly sure that 

 Hooker has information on the extinction of plants, 2 but I 

 cannot remember where I have seen it. One may confidently 

 assume that many insects were exterminated. 



By the way, I heard lately from Wollaston, who told me 

 that he had just received eminently Madeira and Canary 

 Island insect forms from the Cape of Good Hope, to which 

 trifling distance, if he is logical, he will have to extend his 

 Atlantis ! I have just received your letter, and am very 

 much pleased that you approve. But I am utterly disgusted 

 and ashamed about the dingo. I cannot think how I could 

 have misunderstood the paper so grossly. I hope I have not 

 blundered likewise in its co-existence with extinct species : 

 what horrid blundering ! I am grieved to hear that you think 

 I must work in the notes in the text ; but you are so much 

 better a judge that I will obey. I am sorry that you had the 

 trouble of returning the Dog MS., which I suppose I shall 

 receive to-morrow. 



I mean to give good woodcuts of all the chief races of 

 pigeons. 3 



Except the C. cenas* (which is partly, indeed almost 

 entirely, a wood pigeon), there is no other rock pigeon with 



1 Review of The Glaciers of the Alps (Athenaum, Sept. 1, i860, p. 280). 



' Principles of Geology, Vol. II. (Ed. X., 1868), p. 453. Facts are 

 quoted from Hooker illustrating the extermination of plants in St. Helena. 



3 The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 1868. 



* The Columba anas of Europe roosts on trees and builds its nest in 

 holes, either in trees or the ground (Var. of Animals, Vol. I., p. 183). 



