2/4 THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' [i860. 



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 1860? Please answer this. 



My preface will also do for the French edition, which, 7 

 believe is agreed on. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



February [1860]. 



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

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

 tions ; and certainly it has astonished me that I should be 

 pelted with the fact, that I had not allowed abrupt and great 

 enough variations under nature. It would take a good deal 

 more evidence to make me admit that forms have often 

 changed by saltum. 



* William Henry Harvey was compelled by illness to leave. In 



descended from a Quaker family of 1843 he obtained the appointment 



Youghal, and was born in Feb- of Botanical Professor at Trinity 



ruary, 1811, at Summerville, a College, Dublin. In 1854, 1855, 



country house on the banks of the and 1856 he visited Australia, New 



Shannon. He died at Torquay in Zealand, the Friendly and Fiji 



1866. In 1835, Harvey went to Islands. In 1857 Dr. Harvey 



Africa (Table Bay) to pursue his reached home, and was appointed 



botanical studies, the results of the successor of Professor Allman 



which were given in his ' Genera of to the Chair of Botany in Dublin 



South African Plants.' In 1838, University. He was author of 



ill-health compelled him to obtain several botanical works, princi- 



leave of absence, and return to pally on Algae. (From a Memoir 



England for a time ; in 1840 he published in 1869.) 

 returned to Cape Town, to be again 



