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service. Still more, if you would run your eye over the more 

 difficult parts of the translation ; but this is too great a favour 

 to expect. I feel sure that it will be difficult to translate, 

 from being so much condensed. 



Again I thank you for your noble and generous sympathy, 

 and I remain, with entire respect, 



Yours, truly obliged, 



C. Darwin. 



P. S. — The new edition has some few corrections, and I 

 will send in MS. some additional corrections, and a short his- 

 torical preface, to Schweitzerbart. 



How interesting you could make the work by editing (I do 

 not mean translating) the work, and appending notes of refu- 

 tation or confirmation. The book has sold so very largely in 

 England, that an editor would, I think, make profit by the 

 translation. 



C. Darwin to H. G. Bronn. 



Down, Feb. 14 [i860]. 

 My dear and much honoured Sir, — I thank you cor- 

 dially for your extreme kindness m superintending the trans- 

 lation. I have mentioned this to some eminent scientific men, 

 and they all agree that you have done a noble and generous 

 service. If I am proved quite wrong, yet I comfort myself 

 in thinking that my book may do some good, as truth can 

 only be known by rising victorious from every attack. I 

 thank you also much for the review, and for the kind manner 

 in which you speak of me. I send with this letter some cor- 

 rections and additions to M. Schweitzerbart, and a short his- 

 torical preface. I am not much acquainted with German 

 authors, as I read German very slowly ; therefore I do not 

 know whether any Germans have advocated similar views 

 with mine ; if they have, would you do me the favour to in- 

 sert a foot-note to the preface ? M. Schweitzerbart has now 

 the reprint ready for a translator to begin. Several scientific 

 men have thought the term " Natural Selection " good, be- 



