I should be very sorry for it, as the paper would thus become sectional in its tendency.

If you write, tell me what you are doing yourself.

The only news which I have about the "Origin" is that Fritz Muller published a few months ago a remarkable book (187/5.

"Fur Darwin.") in its favour, and secondly that a second French edition is just coming out.
LETTER 188.

TO F.MULLER.Down, January 11th [1866].
I received your interesting letter of November 5th some little time ago, and despatched immediately a copy of my "Journal of Researches." I fear you will think me troublesome in my offer; but have you the second German edition of the "Origin ?" which is a translation, with additions, of the third English edition, and is, I think, considerably improved compared with the first edition.