i860.] REV. L. BLOMEFIELD. ^ 



fore that Napoleon is right, and every cheating tradesman is 

 also right. 



C. Darwin to W. B. Carpenter. 



Down, January 6th [1860] ? 



MY DEAR CARPENTER, I have just read your excellent 

 article in the ' National.' It will do great good ; especially if 

 it becomes known as your production. It seems to me to 

 give an excellently clear account of Mr. Wallace's and my 

 views. How capitally you turn the flanks of the theological 

 opposcrs by opposing to them such men as Bentham and the 

 more philosophical of the systematists ! I thank you sincere- 

 ly for the extremely honourable manner in which you mention 

 me. I should have liked to have seen some criticisms or re- 

 marks on embryology, on which subject you are so well in- 

 structed. I do not think any candid person can read your 

 article without being much impressed with it. The old doc- 

 trine of immutability of specific forms will surely but slowly 

 die away. It is a shame to give you trouble, but I should be 

 very much obliged if you could tell me where differently col- 

 oured eggs in individuals of the cuckoo have been described, 

 and their laying in twenty-seven kinds of nests. Also do you 

 know from your own observation that the limbs of sheep im- 

 ported into the West Indies change colour ? I have had de- 

 tailed information about the loss of wool; but my accounts 

 made the change slower than you describe. 



With most cordial thanks and respect, believe me, my 



dear Carpenter, yours very sincerely, 



CH. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to L. Jenyns* 



Down, January 7th, 1860. 



MY DEAR JENYNS, I am very much obliged for your 

 letter. It is of great use and interest to me to know what 



* Rev. L. Blomefield. 

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