i86i.] HUXLEY'S ARTICLE. l $ l 



amplification of the * Origin of Species ' e.g., the publication 

 of ' Animals and Plants,' ' Descent of Man,' &c.] 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, Jan. 15 [1861]. 



MY DEAR HOOKER, The sight of your handwriting always 

 rejoices the very cockles of my heart 



I most fully agree to what you say about Huxley's Article,* 



and the power of writing The whole review seems to 



me excellent. How capitally Oliver has done the resume" 

 of botanical books. Good Heavens, how he must have 

 read ! . . . . 



I quite agree that Phillips f is unreadably dull. You need 

 not attempt Bree.J .... 



* ' Natural History Review,' 1861, p. 67, " On the Zoological Rela- 

 tions of Man with the Lower Animals." This memoir had its origin in a 

 discussion at the previous meeting of the British Association, when Pro- 

 fessor Huxley felt himself " compelled to give a diametrical contradiction 

 to certain assertions respecting the differences which obtain between the 

 brains of the higher apes and of man, which fell from Professor Owen.'' 

 But in order that his criticisms might refer to deliberately recorded words, 

 he bases them on Professor Owen's paper, " On the Characters, &c., of the 

 Class Mammalia," read before the Linnean Society in February and April, 

 1857, in which he proposed to place man not only in a distinct order, but 

 in " a distinct sub-class of the Mammalia " the Archencephala. 



f ' Life on the Earth ' (1860), by Prof. Phillips, containing the sub- 

 stance of the Rede Lecture (May 1860). 



\ The following sentence (p. 16) from ' Species not Transmutable,' by 

 Dr. Bree, illustrates the degree in which he understood the ' Origin of 

 Species ' : " The only real difference between Mr. Darwin and his two 

 predecessors" [Lamarck and the ' Vestiges '] "is this: that while the 

 latter have each given a mode by which they conceive the great changes 

 they believe in have been brought about, Mr. Darwin does no such thing." 

 After this we need not be surprised at a passage in the preface : " No one 

 has derived greater pleasure than I have in past days from the study of 

 Mr. Darwin's other works, and no one has felt a greater degree of regret 

 that he should have imperilled his fame by the publication of his treatise 

 upon the ' Origin of Species.' " 



