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forgotten),* who writes to De Candolle that he is sure that 

 my views will ultimately prevail. But I did not intend to 

 have written all this. It satisfies me with the final results, 

 but this result, I begin to see, will take two or three life- 

 times. The entomologists are enough to keep the subject 

 back for half a century. I really pity your having to 

 balance the claims of so many eager aspirants for notice ; it 

 is clearly impossible to satisfy all. . . . Certainly I was struck 

 with the full and due honour you conferred on Falconer. 

 I have just had a note from Hooker. ... I am heartily glad 

 that you have made him so conspicuous ; he is so honest, so 

 candid, and so modest. . . . 



I have read - . I could find nothing to lay hold of, 

 which in one sense I am very glad of, as I should hate a 

 controversy ; but in another sense I am very sorry for, as 

 I long to be in the same boat with all my friends. ... I am 

 heartily glad the book is going off so well. 



Ever yours, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [March 29, 1863]. 



. . . Many thanks for Athenceum, received this morning, 

 and to be returned to-morrow morning. Who would have 

 ever thought of the old stupid Athencemn taking to Oken-like 

 transcendental philosophy written in Owenian style ! \ . . . . 



" The Marquis de Saporta. Carpenter, naturally enough, be- 



t This refers to a review of Dr. lieved in, viz. the genetic connec- 



Carpenter's 'Introduction to the tion of living and extinct Foramini- 



study of Foraminifera,' that ap- fera. In the next number is a letter 



peared in the Athenceum of by Dr. Carpenter, which chiefly 



March 28, 1863 (p. 417). The re- consists of a protest against the 



viewer attacks Dr. Carpenter's reviewer's somewhat contemptuous 



views in as much as they support classification of Dr. Carpenter and 



the doctrine of Descent ; and he my father as disciple and master, 



upholds spontaneous generation In the course of the letter Dr. Car- 



(Heterogeny) in place of what Dr. penter says p. 461 : 

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