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passage as possible, and he asked Darwin to 

 write his name after the following lines : — 



" So careful of the type ? But no. 



From scarped cliff and quarried stone 

 She cries, ' A thousand types are gone : 

 I care for nothing — all shall go.' " 



He signed, " C. Darwin." It is doubtful if he 

 ever saw — or seeing, appreciated — the joke of 

 the pun implied in his initial — see Darwin ! 

 This mention of poetry reminds me of the 

 wonderful prophecy made by the evolutionist's 

 grandfather, Erasmus, in his poem, " The Botanic 

 Garden." In view of the present marvellous 

 state of efficiency attained by aeroplanes, to 

 say nothing of motor-cars, the lines, written over 

 a hundred years ago,* are so remarkable, I 

 cannot resist the temptation to quote them : — 



" Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar 

 Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; 

 Or on wide waving wings erpanded bear 

 The flying-chariot through the field of air." 



* Erasmus Darwin, born 1731, died in 1802. 



