232 OBIGIN OF SPECIES. [Ch. XIH. 



a D. to a Lyell. Down, April 10th [I860]. 



I have just read the Edinburgh,* which without doubt is 



by . It is extremely malignant, clever, and I fear will be 



very damaging. He is atrociously severe on Huxley's lecture, 

 and very bitter against Hooker. So we three enjoyed it 

 together. Not that I really enjoyed it, for it made me un- 

 comfortable for one night; but I have got quite over it 

 to-day. It requires much study to appreciate all the bitter 

 spite of many of the remarks against me ; indeed I did not 

 discover all myself. It scandalously misrepresents many parts. 

 He misquotes some passages, altering words within inverted 

 commas. . . . 



It is painful to be hated in the intense degree with which 

 hates me.i 



Now for a curious thing about my book, and then I have 

 done. In last Saturday's Gardeners' Chronicle,] a Mr. Patrick 

 Matthew publishes a long extract from his work on Naval 

 Timber and Arboriculture published in 1831, in which he 

 briefly but completely anticipates the theory of Natural Selec- 

 tion. I have ordered the book, as some few passages are 

 rather obscure, but it is certainly, I think, a complete but not 

 developed anticipation! Erasmus always said that surely 

 this would be shown to be the case some day. Anyhow, one 

 may be excused in not having discovered the fact in a work on 

 Naval Timber. 



C. D. to J. D. Booker, Down [April 13th, I860]. 



My deab Hooker, — Questions of priority so often lead to 

 odious quarrels, that I should esteem it a great favour if you 

 would read the enclosed. % If you think it proper that I should 



* Edinburgh Review, April, 1860. 



f April 7, 1860. 



X My father wrote (Gardeners 1 Gironicle, April 21, 1860, p. 862) : * 1 

 have been much interested by Mr. Patrick Matthew's communication in 

 the number of your paper dated April 7th. I freely acknowledge that 

 Mr. Matthew has anticipated by many years the explanation which I 

 have offered of the origin of species, under the name of natural selection. 

 I think that no one will feel surprised that neither I, nor apparently any 

 other naturalist, had heard of Mr. Matthew's views, considering how 

 briefly they are given, and that they appeared in the appendix to a work 

 on Naval Timber and Arboriculture. I can do no more than offer my 

 apologies to Mr. Matthew for my entire ignorance of his publication. If 

 another edition of my work is called for, I will insert to the foregoing 

 effect" In spite of my father's recognition of his claims, Mr. Matthew 



