much disapprove of the 'Origin,' and I sent it to you merely as a mark of
my sincere respect. I shall read with much interest your work on the
productions of Islands whenever I receive it. I thank you cordially for
the notice in the 'Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie,' and still more for
speaking to Schweitzerbart about a translation; for I am most anxious that
the great and intellectual German people should know something about my
book.

I have told my publisher to send immediately a copy of the NEW (Second
edition.) edition to Schweitzerbart, and I have written to Schweitzerbart
that I gave up all right to profit for myself, so that I hope a translation
will appear. I fear that the book will be difficult to translate, and if
you could advise Schweitzerbart about a GOOD translator, it would be of
very great service. Still more, if you would run your eye over the more
difficult parts of the translation; but this is too great a favour to
expect. I feel sure that it will be difficult to translate, from being so
much condensed.

Again I thank you for your noble and generous sympathy, and I remain, with
entire respect,

Yours, truly obliged,
C. DARWIN.

P.S.--The new edition has some few corrections, and I will send in MS. some
additional corrections, and a short historical preface, to Schweitzerbart.

How interesting you could make the work by EDITING (I do not mean
translating) the work, and appending notes of REFUTATION or confirmation.
The book has sold so very largely in England, that an editor would, I