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space you have chosen your lines of reasoning 

 excellently. 



But I am tired, so good night ! 



0. Darwin. 



The few last pages are awfully powerful in my 

 opinion. 



Sunday Morning. — The above was written last 

 night in an enthusiasm of the moment, and now this 

 dark, dismal Sunday morning I fully agree with 

 what I said. 



I am very sorry to hear about the failure in the 

 graft experiments, and not from your own fault or 

 ill-luck. Trollope, in one of his novels, gives us a 

 maxim of constant use by a brick-maker, ' It is dogged 

 as does it ! ' and I have often and often thought 

 this is the motto for every scientific worker. I am 

 sure it is yours if you do not give up Pangenesis with 

 wicked imprecations. By the way, Gr. Jager has just 

 brought out in ' Kosmos ' a chemical sort of Pange- 

 nesis, bearing chiefly on inheritance. 



I cannot conceive why I have not olfered my 

 garden for your experiments. I would attend to the 

 plants, as far as mere care goes, with pleasure, but 

 Down is an awkward place to reach. 



CD. 



(Would it be worth while to try if the ' Fortnightly ' 

 would publish it ?) 



To this Mr. Eomanes replied : 



