later, was transformed into 'Annals of Natural History,' but remained under
his direction. For Bohn's Standard Library he edited White's 'Natural
History of Selborne.' Sir W. Jardine was also joint editor of the
'Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,' and was author of 'British Salmonidae,'
'Ichthyology of Annandale,' 'Memoirs of the late Hugh Strickland,'
'Contributions to Ornithology,' 'Ornithological Synonyms,' etc.--(Taken
from Ward, 'Men of the Reign,' and Cates, 'Dictionary of General
Biography.'): his criticisms are quite unimportant; some of the Galapagos
so-called species ought to be called varieties, which I fully expected;
some of the sub-genera, thought to be wholly endemic, have been found on
the Continent (not that he gives his authority), but I do not make out that
the species are the same. His letter is brief and vague, but he says he
will write again.


CHARLES DARWIN TO J.D. HOOKER.
Down [23rd December, 1859].

My dear Hooker,

I received last night your 'Introduction,' for which very many thanks; I am
surprised to see how big it is: I shall not be able to read it very soon.
It was very good of you to send Naudin, for I was very curious to see it.
I am surprised that Decaisne should say it was the same as mine. Naudin
gives artificial selection, as well as a score of English writers, and when
he says species were formed in the same manner, I thought the paper would
certainly prove exactly the same as mine. But I cannot find one word like
the struggle for existence and natural selection. On the contrary, he
brings in his principle (page 103) of finality (which I do not understand),
which, he says, with some authors is fatality, with others providence, and