First Edition......180 pounds
Second Edition.....636 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence

Total..............816 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence.

After the publication of the second edition he began at once, on January
9th, looking over his materials for the 'Variation of Animals and Plants;'
the only other work of the year was on Drosera.

He was at Down during the whole of this year, except for a visit to Dr.
Lane's Water-cure Establishment at Sudbrooke, and in June, and for visits
to Miss Elizabeth Wedgwood's house at Hartfield, in Sussex (July), and to
Eastbourne, September 22 to November 16.]


CHARLES DARWIN TO J.D. HOOKER.
Down, January 3rd [1860].

My dear Hooker,

I have finished your Essay. ('Australian Flora.') As probably you would
like to hear my opinion, though a non-botanist, I will give it without any
exaggeration. To my judgment it is by far the grandest and most
interesting essay, on subjects of the nature discussed, I have ever read.
You know how I admired your former essays, but this seems to me far
grander. I like all the part after page xxvi better than the first part,
probably because newer to me. I dare say you will demur to this, for I
think every author likes the most speculative parts of his own productions.
How superior your essay is to the famous one of Brown (here will be sneer