Oh. XIV.] 1861—1871. 267 



of reproducing the whole— or * diffuses an influence/ these 

 words give me no positive idea ; — but, when it is said that the 

 cells of a plant, or stump, include atoms derived from every 

 other cell of the whole organism and capable of development, I 

 gain a distinct idea." 



Immediately after the publication of the book, he wrote : 



Down, February 10 [1868]. 

 My dear Hooker, — What is the good of having a friend, if 

 one may not boast to him ? I heard yesterday that Murray 

 has sold in a week the whole edition of 1500 copies of my book, 

 and the sale so pressing that he has agreed with Clowes to get 

 another edition in fourteen days 1 This has done me a world 

 of good, for I had got into a sort of dogged hatred of my book. 

 And now there has appeared a review in the Pall Mall which 

 has pleased me excessively, more perhaps than is reasonable. 

 I am quite content, and do not care how much I may be pitched 

 into. If by any chance you should hear who wrote the article 

 in the Pall Mall, do please tell me ; it is some one who writes 

 capitally, and who knows the subject. I went to luncheon on 

 Sunday, to Lubbock's, partly in hopes of seeing you, and, be 

 hanged to you, you were not there. 



Your cock-a-hoop friend, 



CD. 



Independently of the favourable tone of the able series of 

 notices in the Pall Mall Gazette (Feb. 10, 15, 17, 1868), 

 my father may well have been gratified by the following 



" We must call attention to the rare and noble calmness with 

 which he expounds his own views, undisturbed by the heats of 

 polemical agitation which those views have excited, and per- 

 sistently refusing to retort on his antagonists by ridicule, by 

 indignation, or by contempt. Considering the amount of vitu- 

 peration and insinuation which has come from the other side, 

 this forbearance is supremely dignified." 



And again in the third notice, Feb. 17 : — 



" Nowhere has the author a word that could wound the most 

 sensitive self-love of an antagonist ; nowhere does he, in text or 

 note, expose the fallacies and mistakes of brother investigators 

 . . . but while abstaining from impertinent censure, he is lavish 

 in acknowledging the smallest debts he may owe ; and his book 

 will make many men happy." 



