Mr. Darwin and " Evolution," etc. 41 



as yet knew nothing, had been writing about the elder 

 Darwin, and had taken much the same line concerning 

 him that I had done. It was for the benefit of this person, 

 then, that Dr. Krause's paragraph was intended. I 

 returned to a becoming sense of my own insignificance, 

 and began to read what I supposed to be an accurate 

 translation of Dr. Krause's article as it originally appeared, 

 before " Evolution, Old and New," was published. 



On pp. 3 and 4 of Dr. Krause's part of Mr. Darwin's 

 book (pp. 133 and 134 of the book itself), I detected a sub- 

 apologetic tone which a little surprised me, and a notice 

 of the fact that Coleridge when writing on StilUngfleet had 

 used the word " Darwinising." Mr. R. Garnett had called 

 my attention to this, and I had mentioned it in " Evolution, 

 Old and New," but the paragraph only struck me as 

 being a little odd. 



When I got a few pages farther on (p. 147 of Mr. 

 Darwin's book), I found a long quotation from Buffon 

 about rudimentary organs, which I had quoted in " Evolu- 

 tion, Old and New." I observed that Dr. Krause used the 

 same edition of Buffon that I did, and began his quota- 

 tion two lines from the beginning of Buffon's paragraph, 

 exactly as I had done ; also that he had taken his nomi- 

 native from the omitted part of the sentence across 

 a full stop, as I had myself taken it. A little lower 

 I found a line of Buffon's omitted which I had given, but 

 I found that at that place I had inadvertently left two 

 pair of inverted commas which ought to have come out,^ 

 having intended to end my quotation, but changed my 

 mind and continued it without erasing the commas. It 

 seemed to me that these commas had bothered Dr. Krause, 

 and made him think it safer to leave something out, for the 

 line he omits is a very good one. I noticed that he trans- 

 lated " Mais comme nous voulons toujours tout rapporter 

 k un certain but," " But we, always wishing to refer," &c., 

 while I had it, " But we, ever on the look-out to refer," 

 ' Evolution, Old and New, p. 120, line 5. 



