Hooker, even in stronger terms.

I shall reserve for a future work the discussion of these difficulties, and the tables of the proportional numbers of the varying species.

Dr.

Hooker permits me to add that after having carefully read my manuscript, and examined the tables, he thinks that the following statements are fairly well established.

The whole subject, however, treated as it necessarily here is with much brevity, is rather perplexing, and allusions cannot be avoided to the "struggle for existence," "divergence of character," and other questions, hereafter to be discussed.