268 THE SPREAD OF EVOLUTION. [Oh. XIV. 



I am indebted to Messrs. Smith and Elder for the information 

 that these articles were written by Mr. G. H. Lewes. 



The following extract from a letter (Feb. 1870) to his friend 

 Professor Newton, the well-known ornithologist, shows how 

 much he valued the appreciation of his colleagues. 



" I suppose it would be universally held extremely wrong for 

 a defendant to write to a Judge to express his satisfaction at a 

 judgment in his favour ; and yet I am going thus to act. I 

 have just read what you have said in the * Record ' * about my 

 pigeon chapters, and it has gratified me beyond measure. I 

 have sometimes felt a little disappointed that the labour of so 

 many years seemed to be almost thrown away, for you are tho 

 first man capable of forming a judgment (excepting partly 

 Quatrefages), who seems to have thought anything of this part 

 of my work. The amount of labour, correspondence, and care, 

 which the subject cost me, is more than you could well suppose. 

 I thought the article in the Athenaeum was very unjust ; but 

 now I feel amply repaid, and I cordially thank you for your 

 sympathy and too warm praise." 



WOEK ON MAN. 



In February 1867, when the manuscript of Animals and 

 Plants had been sent to Messrs. Clowes to be printed, and 

 before the proofs began to come in, he had an interval of spare 

 time, and began a " Chapter on Man," but he soon found it 

 growing under his hands, and determined to publish it separately 

 as a " very small volume." 



It is remarkable that only four years before this date, namely 

 in 1864, he had given up hope of being able to work out this 

 subject. He wrote to Mr. Wallace : — 



" I have collected a few notes on man, but I do not suppose 

 that I shall ever use them. Do you intend to follow out your 

 views, and if so, would you like at some future time to have my 

 few references and notes ? I am sure I hardly know whether 

 they are of any value, and they are at present in a state of 

 chaos. There is much more that I should like to write, but I 

 have not strength." But this was at a period of ill-health ; 

 not long before, in 1863, he had written in the same depressed 

 tone about his future work generally : — 



" I have been so steadily going downhill, I cannot help 

 doubting whether I can ever crawl a little uphill again. Unless 



* Zoological Record. The volume for 1868, published December, 1869. 



