i860.] HOPKINS'S REVIEW. 327 



.... Henslow* and Daubeny are shaken. I hear from 

 Hooker that he hears from Hochstetter that my views are 

 making very considerable progress in Germany, and the good 

 workers are discussing the question. Bronn at the end of his 

 translation has a chapter of criticism, but it is such difficult 

 German that I have not yet read it. Hopkins's review in 

 ' Fraser ' is thought the best which has appeared against us. 

 I believe that Hopkins is so much opposed because his course 

 of study has never led him to reflect much on such subjects 

 as geographical distribution, classification, homologies, &c., 

 so that he does not feel it a relief to have some kind of 

 explanation, 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Hartfield [Sussex], July soth [1860]. 



I had lots of pleasant letters about the Brit. 



Assoc., and our side seems to have got on very well. There 

 has been as much discussion on the other side of the Atlantic 

 as on this. No one I think understands the whole case better 

 than Asa Gray, and he has been fighting nobly. He is a 

 capital reasoner. I have sent one of his printed discussions 

 to our Athenseiim, and the editor says he will print it. The 

 ' Quarterly ' has been out some time. It contains no malice, 

 which is wonderful. ... It makes me say many things which 



* Professor Henslow was men- convert to his (Danvin's) theory, 



tioned in the December number of and can hardly suppose you have 



' Macmillan's Magazine ' as being accepted it as a whole, though, like 



an adherent of Evolution. In con- myself, you may go to the length of 



sequence of this he published, in imagining that many of the smaller 



the February number of the follow- groups, both of animals and plants, 



ing year, a letter defining his posi- may at some remote period have 



tion. This he did by means of an had a common parentage. I do not 



extract from a letter addressed to with some say that the whole of his 



him by the Rev. L. Jenyns (Blome- theory cannot be true but that it 



field) which " very nearly," as he is very far from proved ; and I 



says, expressed his views. Mr. doubt its ever being possible to 



Blomefield wrote, " I was not prove it." 

 aware that you had become a 



