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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, etc., 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 Dionsea see the copious glands 

 for secreting 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 jimip at any- 

 thing written by so notorious a writer as you are. The 

 " Origin " wiU seU anything ; and I believe people wiU 

 get more for their money in this book than in even 

 that, if they care for facts, which generally they do 

 not. 



1 Hie Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication, by 

 Charles Darwin : London, 1868. Republished by American Agri- 

 culturist : New York. 



