If Dawson has published criticisms I should like to see them.

I have heard he is rabid against me, and no doubt partly in consequence, against anything you write in my favour (and never was anything published more favourable than the Arctic paper).

Lyell had difficulty in preventing Dawson reviewing the "Origin" (356/3.

Dawson reviewed the "Origin" in the "Canadian Naturalist," 1860.) on hearsay, without having looked at it.

No spirit of fairness can be expected from so biassed a judge.
All I can say is that your few first pages have impressed me far more this reading than the first time.