246 PUBLICATION OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' [1859. 



got the Essay. The parts which I read in sheets seemed to 

 me grand, especially the generalization about the Australian 

 flora itself. How superior to Robert Brown's celebrated 

 essay ! I have not seen Naudin's paper,* and shall not be 

 able till I hunt the libraries. I am very anxious to see it. 

 Decaisne seems to think he gives my whole theory. I do 

 not know when I shall have time and strength to grapple 

 with Hooker. . . . 



P.S. I have heard from Sir W. Jardine :f his criticisms are 

 quite unimportant ; some of the Galapagos so-called species 

 ought to be called varieties, which I fully expected ; some of 

 the sub-genera, thought to be wholly endemic, have been found 

 on the Continent (not that he gives his authority), but I do 

 not make out that the species are the same. His letter is 

 brief and vague, but he says he will write again. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [23rd December, 1859]. 



MY DEAR HOOKER, I received last night your 'Intro- 

 duction,' for which very many thanks ; I am surprised to see 



* 'Revue Horticole,' 1852. See 1836 he became editor of the 'Maga- 



Historical Sketch in the later edi- zine of Zoology and Botany,' which, 



tions of the ' Origin of Species.' two years later, was transformed 



f Jardine, Sir William, Bart., into ' Annals of Natural History,' 



b. 1800, d. 1874, was the son of but remained under his direction. 



Sir A. Jardine of Applegarth, Dum- For Bohn's Standard Library he 



friesshire. He was educated at edited White's ' Natural History of 



Edinburgh, and succeeded to the Selborne.' Sir W. Jardine was also 



title on his father's decease in 1821. joint editor of the ' Edinburgh 



He published, jointly with Mr. Philosophical Journal,' and was 



Prideaux J. Selby, Sir Stamford author of ' British Salmonidae,' 



Raffles, Dr. Horsfield, and other ' Ichnology of Annandale,' ' Me- 



ornithologists, ' Illustrations of Or- moirs of the late Hugh Strickland,' 



nithology,' and edited the ' Na- ' Contributions to Ornithology,' 



turalist's Library,' in 40 vols. which ' Ornithological Synonyms,' &c. 



included the four branches : Mam- (Taken from Ward, ' Men of the 



malia, Ornithology, Ichthyology, Reign,' and Gates, ' Dictionary of 



and Entomology. Of these 40 vols. General Biography.') 

 14 were written by himself. In 





