68 '1HE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES." [i860. 



astonished at the impression my book has made on many 

 minds. I fear twenty years ago, I should not have been half 

 as candid and open to conviction. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [January 31st, i86o]„ 

 My dear Hooker, — I have resolved to publish a little 

 sketch of the progress of opinion on the change of species. 

 Will you or Mrs. Hooker do me the favour to copy one 

 sentence out of Naudin's paper in the - Revue Horticole,' 

 1852, p. 103, namely, that on his principle of Finalite. Can 

 you let me have it soon, with those confounded dashes over 

 the vowels put in carefully ? Asa Gray, I believe, is going to 

 get a second edition of my book, and I want to send this little 

 preface over to him soon. I did not think of the necessity of 

 having Naudin's sentence on finality, otherwise I would have 

 copied it. 



Yours affectionately, 



C. Darwin. 



P.S. — I shall end by just alluding to your Australian 

 Flora Introduction. What was the date of publication : 

 December 1859, or January i860? Please answer this. 



My preface will also do for the French edition, which, / 

 believe, is agreed on 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



February [i860]. 

 .... As the ' Origin ' now stands, Harvey's * is a good 

 hit against my talking so much of the insensibly fine grada- 



* William Henry Harvey was descended from a Quaker family of 

 Youghal, and was born in February, 181 1, at Summerville, a country 

 house on the banks of the Shannon. He died at Torquay in 1866. In 

 1835, Harvey went to Africa (Table Bay) to pursue his botanical studies, 

 the results of which were given in his ' Genera of South African Plants.' 

 In 1838, ill-health compelled him to obtain leave of absence, and return 



