I4 8 THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' [i860. 



and try to sell by getting a few advertisements put in, and if 

 possible notices in Periodicals. 



David Forbes has been carefully working the 



Geology of Chile, and as I value praise for accurate observa- 

 tion far higher than for any other quality, forgive (if you can) 

 the insuffei-able vanity of my copying the last sentence in his 

 note : " I regard your Monograph on Chile as, without ex- 

 ception, one of the finest specimens of Geological enquiry." 

 I feel inclined to strut like a Turkey-cock ! 



