The suggestion was made because in a great many of the continental writings upon the theory of descent, many of the points which had been clearly foreshadowed, and in some cases even explicitly stated by Darwin, had been rediscovered and published as though original.

In the notes to my edition of Weismann I have endeavoured to do Darwin full justice .-- R.M." See Letter 310.) 4, Bryanston Street, November 26th, 1878.
I am very sorry to say that I cannot agree to your suggestion.

An author is never a fit judge of his own work, and I should dislike extremely pointing out when and how Weismann's conclusions and work agreed with my own.

I feel sure that I ought not to do this, and it would be to me an intolerable task.

Nor does it seem to me the proper office of the preface, which is to show what the book contains, and that the contents appear to me valuable.