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XT. 57. ] TO CHARLES DARWIN. 561 
Mr. Fraser, you may be sure, is very much thought 
of here 
I hope that Dr. Hooker, of Kew, has sent on to you 
the numbers of the “ Nation,” which I have for a 
year or more regularly posted to him, originally re- 
questing he should do so. But it is quite likely the 
busy man has forgotten all about it. 
For myself, I have passed my fifty-seventh anni- 
versary, in firm health, feeling my age only in a 
treacherous memory —as respects names, ete., not as 
to events or friends. The memory of our delightful 
visit to Oxford is ever fresh. 
TO CHARLES DARWIN. 
February 24, 1868. 
The other evening here I discoursed at our private 
club, by giving them an abstract of the chapters on 
Inheritance and Pangenesis ; the former for Professor 
Bowen’s benefit. He and Agassiz took it all very 
well; and pangenesis seemed to strike all of us as 
being as good an hypothesis as one can now make. 
On inside of leaf of Dionzxa see the copious glands 
for —s gastric juice. 
. I do not wonder at your book! being taken up 
at once, by the great numbers of people who need and 
understand it, and the thousands who jump at any- 
thing written by so notorious a writer as you are. The 
‘Origin ” will sell anything ; and I believe people will 
get more for their money in this book than in even 
that, if they care for facts, which generally they do 
not. 
1 The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication, by 
Charles Darwin: London, 1868. Republished by American Agri- 
culturist: New York. 
