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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
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which you will have launched at this letter. Should you have remarked on
the number of plants naturalised in Australia and the United States UNDER
EXTREMELY DIFFERENT CLIMATES, as showing that climate is so important, and
[on] the considerable sprinkling of plants from India, North America, and
South Africa, as showing that the frequent introduction of seeds is so
important? With respect to "abundance of unoccupied ground in Australia,"
do you believe that European plants introduced by man now grow on spots in
Australia which were absolutely bare? But I am an impudent dog, one must
defend one's own fancy theories against such cruel men as you. I dare say
this letter will appear very conceited, but one must form an opinion on
what one reads with attention, and in simple truth, I cannot find words
strong enough to express my admiration of your essay.

My dear old friend, yours affectionately,
C. DARWIN.

P.S.--I differ about the "Saturday Review". ("Saturday Review", December
24, 1859. The hostile arguments of the reviewer are geological, and he
deals especially with the denudation of the Weald. The reviewer remarks
that, "if a million of centuries, more or less, is needed for any part of
his argument, he feels no scruple in taking them to suit his purpose.")
One cannot expect fairness in a reviewer, so I do not complain of all the
other arguments besides the 'Geological Record' being omitted. Some of the
remarks about the lapse of years are very good, and the reviewer gives me
some good and well-deserved raps--confound it. I am sorry to confess the
truth: but it does not at all concern the main argument. That was a nice
notice in the "Gardeners' Chronicle". I hope and imagine that Lindley is
almost a convert. Do not forget to tell me if Bentham gets all the more
staggered.

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