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of rny notions unconsciously. You have always done me more 

 than justice. But I do think I did you a bad turn by getting 

 you to read the old MS., as it must have checked your own 

 original thoughts. There is one thing I am fully convinced 

 of, that the future progress (which is the really important 

 point) of the subject will have depended on really good and 

 well-known workers, like yourself, Lyell, and Huxley, having 

 taken up the subject, than on my own work. I see plainly it 

 is this that strikes my non-scientific friends. 



Last night I said to myself, I would just cut your Intro- 

 duction, but would not begin to read, but I broke down, and 

 had a good hour's read. 



Farewell, yours affectionately, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



December 28th, 1859. 



. . . Have you seen the splendid essay and notice of my 

 book in the Times ?* I cannot avoid a strong suspicion that 

 it is by Huxley ; but I never heard that he wrote in the 

 Times. It will do grand service, . . . 



C. Darwin to T. H. Huxley. 



Down, Dec. 28th [1859]. 



MY DEAR HUXLEY, Yesterday evening, when I read the 

 Times of a previous day, I was amazed to find a splendid 

 essay and review of me. Who can the author be ? I am 

 intensely curious. It included an eulogium of me which quite 

 touched me, though I am not vain enough to think it all 

 deserved. The author is a literary man, and German scholar. 

 He has read my book very attentively; but, what is very 

 remarkable, it seems that he is a profound naturalist. He 

 knows my Barnacle-book, and appreciates it too highly. 

 Lastly, he writes and thinks with quite uncommon force and 



* Dec. 26th. 



