I have quite made up my mind to a savage onslaught; but with Lyell, you, and Huxley, I feel confident we are right, and in the long run shall prevail.

I do not think Asa Gray has quite done you justice in the beginning of the review of me.

(94/2.
"Review of Darwin's Theory on the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection," by "A.G." ("Amer.

Jour.

Sci." Volume XXIX., page 153, 1860).
In a letter to Asa Gray on February 18th, 1860, Darwin writes: "Your review seems to me admirable; by far the best which I have read." ("Life and Letters," II., 1887, page 286.) The review seemed to me very good, but I read it very hastily.
LETTER 95.