NOTES to pp. 13 and 34. 



It has been kindly pointed out to me by Mr. James Parker of 

 Oxford that there is an error in Mr. Darwin's calculation reproduced 

 in page 13 of this volume. Upon the data supplied, the increase in the 

 number of elephants there mentioned would require 750 years instead 

 of 500. The further increase calculated in the same page, would in 

 like manner require seven or eight additional centuries instead of five. 



Mr. Parker also suggests that the expressions in page 34, ' taken for 

 granted,' ' taught for centuries,' seem to ignore Bishop Stillingfleet and 

 other writers of his time, v\ ho saw good reason for believing the Flood 

 in the days of Noah not to have been universal. I am glad to explain that 

 I did not by any means intend to imply that there were no exceptions 

 to the general state of opinion, for I am well aware that there are at 

 the present day some schools, a few nurseries, and even one or two 

 pulpits, into which the truth on this point has been allowed to 

 penetrate. 



