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term) of the many mistaken, but honest men and 

 women who are half mad on the subject. 



Do pray try and let me escape, and quote my letter, 

 which in some respects is more valuable, as giving my 

 independent judgment before the ]\Iedical Congress. 

 I really cannot imagine what I could say. 



I will now tm-n to another subject : my Httle book 

 on Worms has been long finished, but Mun-ay was so 

 strongly opposed to pubhshing it at the dead season, 

 that I yielded. I have told the printers to send you 

 a set of clean sheets, which you can afterwards have 

 stitched together. There is hai'dly anything in it 

 which can interest you. 



Two or thi-ee papers by Hermann Miiller have just 

 appeared in ' Kosmos,' which seem to me interesting, as 

 showing how soon, i.e. after how many attempts, bees 

 learn how best to suck a new flower ; there is also a 

 good and laudatory review of Dr. Eoux. I could lend 

 you * Kosmos " if you think fit. 



You will perhaps have seen that my poor dear 

 brother Erasmus has just died, and he was buried 

 yesterday here at Down. 



Grarvock. Bridge of Earn, Perthshire : September i. 



My dear Mr. Darwin, — ^I hasten to reheve your 

 mind about writing on vivisection, as I am sure that 

 none of the physiologists would deshe you to do so if 

 you feel it a bother. After all, there are plenty of other 

 men to do the writing, and if some of them quote the 

 marked sentences in your letter (which I retui'u), with 

 the statement that you still adhere to them, the chief 



