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many fishes differed sexually in colour and other characters, 

 but I was particularly anxious to learn how far this was the 

 case with those fishes in which the male, differently from 

 what occurs with most birds, takes the largest share in the 

 care of the ova and young. Your letter has not only 

 interested me much, but has greatly gratified me in other 

 respects, and I return you my sincere thanks for your kind- 

 ness. Pray believe me, my dear Sir, 



Yours very faithfully, 



CHARLES DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, Sunday, August 23 [1868]. 



MY DEAR OLD FRIEND, I have received your note. I 

 can hardly say how pleased I have been at the success of 

 your address,* and of the whole meeting. I have seen the 

 Times, Telegraph, Spectator, and Athen&um, and have heard 

 of other favourable newspapers, and have ordered a bundle. 

 There is a " chorus of praise." The Times reported miserably, 

 i.e. as far as errata were concerned ; but I was very glad at 

 the leader, for I thought the way you brought in the mega- 

 lithic monuments most happy.j I particularly admired 

 Tyndall's little speech.t . . . The Spectator pitches a little into 

 you about Theology, in accordance with its usual spirit. . . . 



Your great success has rejoiced my heart. I have just 

 carefully read the whole address in the Athenceum ; and 

 though, as you know, I liked it very much when you read it 

 to me, yet, as I was trying all the time to find fault, I missed 

 to a certain extent the effect as a whole ; and this now 



* Sir Joseph Hooker was Presi- builders, the Khasia race of East 



dent of the British Association at Bengal, in order that their mega- 



the Norwich Meeting in 1868. lithic monuments might be efficient- 



f The British Association was ly described. 



desirous of interesting the Govern- $ Professor Tyndall was Presi- 



ment in certain modern cromlech dent of Section A. 



