1868.] M. GAUDRY. 269 



C. Darwin to F. Muller. 



Down, March 16 [1868]. 



MY DEAR SIR, Your brother, as you will have heard from 

 him, felt so convinced that you would not object to a transla- 

 tion of ' Fur Darwin,' * that I have ventured to arrange /or a 

 translation. Engelmann has very liberally offered me cliches 

 of the woodcuts for 22 thalers ; Mr. Murray has agreed to 

 bring out a translation (and he is our best publisher) on com- 

 mission, for he would not undertake the work on his own 

 risk ; and I have agreed with Mr. W. S. Dallas (who has 

 translated Von Siebold on Parthenogenesis, and many Ger- 

 man works, and who writes very good English) to translate 

 the book. He thinks (and he is a good judge) that it is im- 

 portant to have some few corrections or additions, in order 

 to account for a translation appearing so lately [i.e. at such a 

 long interval of time] after the original ; so that I hope you 

 will be able to send some 



[Two letters may be placed here as bearing on the spread 

 of Evolutionary ideas in France and Germany :] 



C. Darwin to A. Gaudry. 



Down, January 21 [1868]. 



DEAR SIR, I thank you for your interesting essay on the 

 influence of the Geological features of the country on the 

 mind and habits of the Ancient Athenians,! and for your 

 very obliging letter. I am delighted to hear that you intend 

 to consider the relations of fossil animals in connection with 

 their genealogy ; it will afford you a fine field for the exercise 

 of your extensive knowledge and powers of reasoning. Your 



* In a letter to Fritz Muller, my father wrote : " I am vexed to see 

 that on the title my name is more conspicuous than yours, which I espe- 

 cially objected to, and I cautioned the printers after seeing one proof." 



f This appears to refer to M. Gaudry's paper translated in the ' Geol. 

 Mag.,' 1868, p. 372. 



