3/6 SPREAD OF EVOLUTION. [l86l. 



it's very good and fair ; but it is funny to see a man argue on 

 the succession of animals from Noah's Deluge ; as God did 

 not then wholly destroy man, probably he did not wholly 

 destroy the races of other animals at each geological period ! 

 I never expected to have a helping hand from the Old 

 Testament. . . . 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



2, Hesketh Crescent, Torquay, 



July 20 [1861]. 



MY DEAR LYELL. I sent you two or three days ago a 

 duplicate of a good review of the ' Origin ' by a Mr. Maw,* 

 evidently a thoughtful man, as I thought you might like to 

 have it, as you have so many. . . . 



This is a quite charming place, and I have actually walked, 

 I believe, good two miles out and back, which is a grand feat. 



I saw Mr. Pengelly f the other day, and was pleased at 

 his enthusiasm. I do not in the least know whether you are 

 in London. Your illness must have lost you much time, but 

 I hope you have nearly got your great job of the new edition 

 finished. You must be very busy, if in London, so I will be 

 generous, and on honour bright do not expect any answer to 

 this dull little note. . . . 



C. Darwin to Asa Gray. 



Down, September 17 [1861 ?] 



MY DEAR GRAY. I thank you sincerely for your very long 

 and interesting letter, political and scientific, of August 2/th 



* Mr. George Maw, of Benthall pretentious notices, on which fre- 



Hall. The review was published quently occur my father's brief O/-, 



in the 'Zoologist,' July, 1861. On or " nothing new." 



the back of my father's copy f William Pengelly, the geo- 



is written, " Must be consulted legist, and well-known explorer of 



before new edit, of Origin '" words the Devonshire caves, 

 which are wanting on many more 



