1862 ' MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE ' 289 



These several pieces of work, struck out at 

 different times in response to various impulses, were 

 now combined and re-shaped into Man's Place in 

 Nature, the first book which was published by him. 

 Thus he writes to Sir Charles Lyell on May 5, 

 1862 : 



Of course I shall be delighted to discuss anything 

 with you, 1 and the more so as I mean to put the whole 

 question before the world in another shape in my little 

 book, whose title is announced as Evidences as to Man's 

 Place in Nature. I have written the two first essays, the 

 second containing the substance of my Edinburgh 

 Lecture. I recollect you once asked me for something 

 to quote on the Man question, so if you want anything 

 in that way the MS. is at your service. 



Lyell looked over the proofs, ^nd the following 

 letters are in reply to his criticisms : 



ARDRISHAIG, LOCH FYNE, 

 Aug. 17, 1862. 



MY DEAR SIR CHARLES I take advantage of my first 

 quiet day to reply to your letter of the 9th ; and in the 

 first place let me thank you very much for your critical 

 remarks, as I shall find them of great service. 



"With regard to such matters as verbal mistakes, you 

 must recollect that the greater part of the proof was 

 wholly uncoprected. But the reader might certainly do 

 his work better. I do not think you will find room to 

 complain of any want of distinctness in iny definition of 

 Owen's position touching the Hippocampus question. I 

 mean to give the whole history of the business in a note, 

 so that the paraphrase of Sir Ph. Egerton's line "To 



1 Referring to the address on "Geological Contemporaneity" 

 delivered in 1862 at the Geological Society, see p. 296. 

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