1869] FIFTH EDITION OF THE 'ORIGIN.' 29 1 



tions are of even less importance, in comparison with indi- 

 vidual differences, than I formerly thought. I mention these 

 points because I have been thus led to alter in many places 

 a few words / and unless you go through the whole new edi- 

 tion, one part will not agree with another, which would be a 

 great blemish. . . . 



[The desire that his views might spread in France was 

 always strong with my father, and he was therefore justly an- 

 noyed to find that in 1869 the Editor of the first French edi- 

 tion had brought out a third edition without consulting the 

 author. He was accordingly glad to enter into an arrange- 

 ment for a French translation of the fifth edition ; this was 

 undertaken by M. Reinwald, with whom he continued to 

 have pleasant relations as the publisher of many of his books 

 into French. 



He wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker : 



u I must enjoy myself and tell you about Mdlle. C. Royer, 

 who translated the ' Origin ' into French, and for whose sec- 

 ond edition I took infinite trouble. She has now just brought 

 out a third edition without informing me, so that all the cor- 

 rections, &c., in the fourth and fifth English editions are 

 lost. Besides her enormously long preface to the first edi- 

 tion, she has added a second preface abusing me like a pick- 

 pocket for Pangenesis, which of course has no relation to the 

 1 Origin.' So I wrote to Paris ; and Reinwald agrees to bring 

 out at once a new translation from the fifth English edition, 

 in competition with her third edition. . . . This fact shows 

 that "evolution of species" must at last be spreading in 

 France.'' 



With reference to the spread of Evolution among the 

 orthodox, the following letter is of some interest. In March 

 he received, from the author, a copy of a lecture by Rev. T. 

 R. R. Stebbing, given before the Torquay Natural History 

 Society, February i, 1869, bearing the title "Darwinism." 

 My father wrote to Mr. Stebbing :] 



