1863.] 'ANTIQUITY OF MAN.' 15 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [March 13, 1863]. 



I should have thanked you sooner for the Athenceum and 

 very pleasant previous note, but I have been busy, and not a 

 little uncomfortable from frequent uneasy feeling of fullness, 

 slight pain and tickling about the heart. But as I have no 

 other symptoms of heart complaint I do not suppose it is 

 affected. ... I have had a most kind and delightfully candid 

 letter from Lyell, who says he spoke out as far as he believes. 

 I have no doubt his belief failed him as he wrote, for I feel 

 sure that at times he no more believed in Creation than you 

 or I. I have grumbled a bit in my answer to him at his 

 always classing my work as a modification of Lamarck's, 

 which it is no more than any author who did not believe in 

 immutability of species, and did believe in descent. I am 

 very sorry to hear from Lyell that Falconer is going to 

 publish a formal reclamation of his own claims. . . . 



It is cruel to think of it, but we must go to Malvern in the 

 middle of April ; it is ruin to me.* . . . 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Down, March 17 [1863]. 



MY DEAR LYELL, I have been much interested by your 

 letters and enclosure, and thank you sincerely for giving me 

 so much time when you must be so busy. What a curious 

 letter from B. de P. [Boucher de Perthes]. He seems per- 

 fectly satisfied, and must be a very amiable man. I know 

 something about his errors, and looked at his book many 

 years ago, and am ashamed to think that I concluded the 



* He went to Hartfield, in Sussex, on April 27, and to Malvern in 

 the autumn. 



