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sincere congratulations. Thanks for all your news. I grieve 

 to hear Humboldt is failing ; one cannot help feeling, though 

 unrightly, that such an end is humiliating : even when I saw 

 him he talked beyond all reason. If you see him again, pray 

 give him my most respectful and kind compliments, and say 

 that I never forget that my whole course of life is due to 

 having read and re-read as a youth his * Personal Narrative/ 

 How true and pleasing are all your remarks on his kindness ; 

 think how many opportunities you will have, in your new 

 place, of being a Humboldt to others. Ask him about the 

 river in N. E. Europe, with the Flora very different on its 

 opposite banks, I have got and read your Wilkes ; what a 

 feeble book ''n matter and style, and how splendidly got up ! 

 Do write me a line from Berlin. Also thanks for the proof- 

 sheets. I did not, however, mean proof plates ; I value them, 

 as saving me copying extracts. Farewell, my dear Hooker, 

 with a heavy heart I wish you joy of your prospects. 



Your sincere friend, 



C. DARWIN. 



[The second edition of the ; Journal,' to which the follow- 

 ing letter refers, was completed between April 25th and Au- 

 gust 25th. It was published by Mr. Murray in the 'Colonial 

 and Home Library,' and in this more accessible form soon 

 had a large sale. 



Up to the time of his first negotiations with Mr. Murray 

 for its publication in this form, he had received payment only 

 in the form of a large number of presentation copies, and he 

 seems to have been glad to sell the copyright of the second 

 edition to Mr. Murray for 1507. 



The points of difference between it and the first edition 

 are of interest chiefly in connection with the growth of the- 

 author's views on evolution, and will be considered later.] 



