Volume I Part 46 (2/2)

I a next Monday to revive under Water-cure at Moor Park

My dear Hooker, yours affectionately, C DARWIN

CHARLES DARWIN TO JD HOOKER Nove Abstract to you again, for I ah about it; but, as you allude to its previous publication, I may say that I have the chapters on Instinct and Hybridisht each; and raphical Distribution, and Affinities, being less worked up, I dare say each of these will take me three weeks, so that I shall not have done at soonest till April, and then ive more than one or two instances, and I pass over briefly all difficulties, and yet I cannot make , and yet it will expand to a small volume

[About this ti his boys in their collecting He sent a short notice to the 'Ento the capture of Licinus silphoides, Clytus ins with the words, ”We three very young collectors having lately taken in the parish of Down,” etc, and is signed by three of his boys, but was clearly not written by the out my bottle of dead beetles for my father to name, and the excitement, in which he fully shared, when any of the letters to Mr Fox (November 13, 1858), and to Sir John Lubbock, illustrate this point:]

CHARLES DARWIN TO WD FOX Down, November 13th [1858]

W, e, in the rooms above yours

My old Gyp, Impey, was astounded to hear that he wasmarried?” What pleasant hours those hen I used to come and drink coffee with you daily! I aun collecting beetles, and he caught the other day Brachinus crepitans, of immortal Whittlesea Mere ht a Licinus--a prize unknown to me

CHARLES DARWIN TO JOHN LUBBOCK Thursday [before 1857]

Dear Lubbock,

I do not knohether you care about beetles, but for the chance I send this in a bottle, which I never reh it is excessively rash to speak from a twenty-five-year old remembrance

Whenever we meet you can tell me whether you know it

I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of the tru of rare beetles--is not this a ist?--It really alain Adios

”Floreat Entolass of wine So again, ”Floreat Entolasses full of wine

Yours, CD

CHARLES DARWIN TO HERBERT SPENCER Down, Nove permission to thank you sincerely for your very kind present of your Essays ('Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative,' by Herbert Spencer, 1858-74) I have already read several of theument of the so-called develop an Abstract of a larger work on the changes of species; but I treat the subject sieneral point of view, otherwise, in uht have been quoted by e Your article on Music has also interested ht on the subject, and had coh unable to support the notion in any detail Furthermore, by a curious coincidence, expression has been for years a persistent subject with ree with you that all expression has so I hope to profit by your criticis leave to reed, C DARWIN

CHARLES DARWIN TO JD HOOKER Down, December 24th [1858]

My dear Hooker,

Your news about your unsolicited salary and house is jolly, and creditable to the Government My room (28 x 19), with divided room above, with ALL FIXTURES (and painted), not furniture, and plastered outside, cost about 500 pounds I alad of this news

Your facts about distribution are, indeed, very striking I remember well that none of your many wonderful facts in your several works, perplexedbeen mainly from north to south, and not in the reverse direction I have now at last satisfied MYSELF (but that is very different fro others) on this head; but it would take a little volu see the bearing of a conclusion, at which I had arrived, with respect to this subject It is, that species inhabiting a very large area, and therefore existing in large numbers, and which have been subjected to the severest coh natural selection, at a higher stage of perfection than the inhabitants of a small area Thus I explain the fact of sofossils,” inhabiting now only fresh water, having been beaten out, and exter Ganoid fishes are fresh water, as [are] Lepidosiren and Ornithorhynchus, etc The plants of Europe and Asia, as being the largest territory, I look at as theable to withstand the less-perfected Australian plants; [whilst] these could not resist the Indian See how all the productions of New Zealand yield to those of Europe I dare say you will think all this utter bosh, but I believe it to be solid truth