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consolation to you. Proh pudor ! I am vexed and indignant 

 by turns. I cannot even take comfort in thinking that I shall 

 see more of you, and extract more knowledge from your well- 

 arranged stock. I am pleased to think, that after having read 

 a few of your letters, I never once doubted the position you 

 will ultimately hold amongst European Botanists. I can think 

 about nothing else, otherwise I should like [to] discuss 

 * Cosmos '* with you. I trust you will pay me and my wife 

 a visit this autumn at Down. I shall be at Down on the 24th, 

 and till then moving about. 



My dear Hooker, allow me to call myself 



Your very true friend, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Danvin to C. Lyell. 



October 8th [1845] Shrewsbury. 



. . I have lately been taking a little tour to see a farm I have 

 purchased in Lincolnshire,! and then to York, where I visited 

 the Dean of Manchester,^ the great maker of Hybrids, who 

 gave me much curious information. I also visited Waterton 

 at Walton Hall, and was extremely amused at my visit 



* A translation of Humboldt's man to buy his quarter of an acre ; 



' Kosmos.' it makes one's blood burn with 



f He speaks of his Lincolnshire indignation." 



farm in a letter to Henslow (July % Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert. 



4th) : " I have bought a farm in The visit is mentioned in a letter to 



Lincolnshire, and when I go there Dr. Hooker : " I have been taking 



this autumn, I mean to see what I a little tour, partly on business, and 



can do in providing any cottage on visited the Dean of Manchester, 



my small estate with gardens. It and had very much interesting talk 



is a hopeless thing to look to, but with him on hybrids, sterility, and 



I believe few things would do this variation, &c. &c. He is full of 



country more good in future ages self-gained knowledge, but knows 



than the destruction of primogeni- surprisingly little what others have 



lure, so as to lessen the difference done on the same subjects. He is 



in land-wealth, and make more very heterodox on ' species ' : not 



small freeholders. How atrociously much better, as most naturalists 



unjust are the stamp laws, which would esteem it, than poor Mr. 



render it so expensive for the poor Vestiges." 



