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.seeds raised in the West Indies. It should be noted whether 

 it is a nut ever imported into England. I am very glad you 

 \vill read my Geographical MS. ; it is now copying, and it will 

 (I presume) take ten days or so in being finished ; it shall be 

 sent as soon as done. . . . 



I shall be very glad to see your embryological ideas on 

 plants ; by the sentence which I sent you, you will see that 

 I only want one sentence ; if facts are at all, as I suppose, 

 and I shall see this from your note, for sending which very 

 many thanks. 



I have been so poorly, the last three days, that I sometimes 

 doubt whether I shall ever get my little volume done, though 

 so nearly completed. . . . 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, March I5th [1859]. 



MY DEAR HOOKER, I am pleased at what you say of my 

 chapter. You have not attacked it nearly so much as I 

 feared you would. You do not seem to have detected many 

 errors. It was nearly all written from memory, and hence I 

 was particularly fearful ; it would have been better if the 

 whole had first been carefully written out, and abstracted 

 afterwards. I look at it as morally certain that it must 

 include much error in some of its general views. I will just 

 run over a few points in your note, but do not trouble yourself 

 to reply without you have something important to say. ._. . 



... I should like to know whether the case of endemic 

 bats in islands struck you ; it has me especially ; perhaps too 

 strongly. 



With hearty thanks, ever yours, 



C. DARWIN. 



P.S. You cannot tell what a relief it has been to me 

 your looking over this chapter, as I felt very shaky on it. 

 I shall to-morrow finish my last chapter (except a re- 



