218 CHARLES DARWIN. 



Darwin's generous offer, although gratefully de- 

 clined, was a warm encouragement in the laborious, 

 and in some respects thankless, task of translator and 

 editor — a task which, in the case of the English edition 

 of Weismann's "Studies in the Theory of Descent," 

 was carried out in so admirable a manner. 



