3O2 THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' [l86o. 



would read the enclosed.* If you think it proper that I 

 should send it (and of this there can hardly be any question), 

 and if you think it full and ample enough, please alter the 

 date to the day on which you post it, and let that be soon. 

 The case in the Gardeners Chronicle seems a little stronger 

 than in Mr. Matthew's book, for the passages are therein 

 scattered in three places ; but it would be mere hair-splitting 

 to notice that. If you object to my letter, please return it ; 

 but I do not expect that you will, but I thought that you 

 would not object to run your eye over it. My dear Hooker, 

 it is a great thing for me to have so good, true, and old a 

 friend as you. I owe much for science to my friends. 



Many thanks for Huxley's lecture. The latter part seemed 

 to be grandly eloquent 



... I have gone over [the ' Edinburgh '] review again, and 

 compared passages, and I am astonished at the misrepre- 

 sentations. But I am glad I resolved not to answer. Perhaps 

 it Is selfish, but to answer and think more on the subject is 

 too unpleasant. I am so sorry that Huxley by my means 

 has been thus atrociously attacked. I do not suppose you 

 much care about the gratuitous attack on you. 



* My father wrote {Gardeners' Arboriculture. I can do no more 



Chronicle, 1860, p. 362, April 2ist) : than offer my apologies to Mr. 



" I have been much interested by Matthew for my entire ignorance 



Mr. Patrick Matthew's communi- of his publication. If another edi- 



cation in the number of your paper tion of my work is called for, I will 



dated April 7th. I freely acknow- insert to the foregoing effect." In 



ledge that Mr. Matthew has anti- spite of my father's recognition of 



cipated by many years the ex- his claims, Mr. Matthew remained 



planation which I have offered of unsatisfied, and complained that 



the origin of species, under the an article in the ' Saturday Analyst 



name of natural selection. I think and Leader ' was " scarcely fair in 



that no one will feel surprised alluding to Mr. Darwin as the 



that neither I, nor apparently any parent of the origin of species, 



other naturalist, had heard of Mr. seeing that I published the whole 



Matthew's views, considering how that Mr. Darwin attempts to prove, 



briefly they are given, and that more than twenty-nine years ago.'" 



they appeared in the appendix to Saturday Analyst and Leader ? 



a work on Naval Timber and Nov. 24, 1860. 



