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waded through the whole of the book, in 

 spite of its being rather clumsily arranged, 

 and heavily written in a curious kind of 

 German, and the greater part of the work I 

 was tempted to read again and again. My 

 first thanks are now ofiered to you for those 

 repeated inducements of yours which ended 

 in my study of this incontestably remark- 

 able work. In supposing that Darwin's 

 " Origin of Species" would please me, 

 you were thinking no doubt, in the first 

 place, of my amateur gardening and 

 botanizing. I confess that our garden- 

 ing presents many and many an oppor- 

 tunity of observing for example that 

 " struggle for life" which we are wont 

 to decide in favour of our chosen pets, and 

 which, in the language of ordinary life, 

 goes by the name of " weeding." Another 

 point, which the gardener may experience 

 more often than he wishes, is how one 



