Lubbock was there, and told me that my precious speculation was one of Von Baer's, and that the Finns are supposed to have made the Kjokken moddings.

I read Max Muller a year ago--and quite agree, first part is excellent; last, on origin of language, fatuous and feeble as a scientific argument.
LETTER 358.

TO J.D.HOOKER.

Down, November 12th [1862].
I return by this post Dawson's lecture, which seems to me interesting, but with nothing new.

I think he must be rather conceited, with his "If Dr.Hooker had known this and that, he would have said so and so." It seems to me absurd in Dawson assuming that North America was under sea during the whole Glacial period.