^ET. 66.J TO JOHN H. REDFIELD. 659 



May 21. 



... I have here and there seen references to St. 

 Augustine as maintaining views of indirect creation, 

 such as now would be termed, or might be termed, 

 evolutionary. Can you conveniently put me in the 

 way of understanding his ideas? It is matter for 

 you to work up in your article on Calvinism and Evo- 

 lution. . . . 



December 20. 



. . . Do you see No. 1 of the new agnostic weekly, 

 "Evolution," and its review of " Darwiniana " ? It 

 insists that such a world as ours is too full of imper- 

 fections to have had any intellectual originator. . . . 



TO JOHN H. REDFIELD. 



July 1, 1876. 



DEAR KEDFIELD, I doubt if you know that the 

 late John Stuart Mill, the philosopher, was a keen 

 botanist. His herbarium, rich in European plants 

 and with a good many Indian, etc. (small specimens 

 from Royle, etc.), was given by his stepdaughter to 

 Kew. But Hooker asked leave, after taking a certain 

 amount, to present the rest to me, with leave to choose 

 where all I did not care to have incorporated in the 

 herbarium here should go to. I think it should go 

 to a public herbarium, and as I think the Academy's 

 is not supplied well with European species of at all 

 recent date, or recent collecting, perhaps it should go 

 to you. . . . 



TO MBS. GRAY. 



June 11, 1876. 



... To get my train yesterday I had to leave the 

 house at one. Dom Pedro till sixteen minutes of that, 



