There is poor Dana, to whom I used to preach by letter, writes to me that my prophecies are come true: he is in Florence quite done up, can read nothing and write nothing, and cannot talk for half an hour.

I noticed the "naughty sentence" (89/2.

Mr.Huxley, after speaking of the rudimental teeth of the whale, of rudimental jaws in insects which never bite, and rudimental eyes in blind animals, goes on: "And we would remind those who, ignorant of the facts, must be moved by authority, that no one has asserted the incompetence of the doctrine of final causes, in its application to physiology and anatomy, more strongly than our own eminent anatomist, Professor Owen, who, speaking of such cases, says ("On the Nature of Limbs," pages 39, 40), 'I think it will be obvious that the principle of final adaptations fails to satisfy all the conditions of the problem.'"-- "The Times," December 26th, 1859.) about Owen, though my wife saw its bearing first.

Farewell you best and worst of men! That sentence about the bird and the fish dinners charmed us.

Lyell wrote to me--style like yours.
Have you seen the slashing article of December 26th in the "Daily News," against my stealing from my "master," the author of the "Vestiges ?" LETTER 90.