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naturalists, much my seniors, to give him a wide 

 berth.' ^ 



In working out the various subjects referred 

 to in the letters, I have received the kindest 

 help from Mr. Trimen and Mr. Francis Darwin. 

 Although Mr. Trimen did not keep copies of 

 his own letters, he was able to remember the 

 detaUs of nearly all the questions touched upon 

 in the correspondence, while other data were 

 recovered from Darwin's works. Without Mr. 

 Francis Darwin's help I should have been un- 

 able to decipher a few obscurely written words, 

 or to have obtained other information bearing 

 upon the conditions under which the letters 

 were written. 



The letters are, as I have already impHed, 

 a typical series. They show aU the character- 

 istics of Darwin in his relations with younger 

 men who helped him in his work. ' They are,' 

 as Mr. Trimen truly says, 'of value as an ad- 

 ditional illustration of one of the most charming 

 and attractive sides of Darwin's character — the 

 gracious and glad welcome and recognition he 

 never failed to extend to every one who even 

 in the slightest degree endeavoured to render 

 some aid in his researches.' 



In addition to the fuU recognition he accorded 

 in his pubHshed works, we find, in these letters 

 as in others, that Darwin not only urged his 

 correspondent to publish on his own account, 



' See p. 219. 



