Dear Darwin

Galton is to go, & “my Lord” (H. Lennox) has 24 hours given him to say whether he prefers to behave himself or to go too.— I have seen the letter from the Treay. to the latter—& if he holds office after it he must be as craven a spirit as he is a false loon—¹

Galton is trying hard to succeed Col. James! & the T. are inclined to the arrangement as an easy way of how to dispose of him— I have written very strongly urging them to weigh well what they are about—for that the Ordnance Survey will justly complain, at a retired Capt. R.E. who has been turned out of 3 first class posts in succession viz under B. of Trade, War office & O. of Works is put over the head not only of a Lt. Col. like Clarke (a man of first rate ability & standing) but of a body of the elite of the Army.² I am most anxious to save the Govt such a fiasco— better to pension G. at once—

E^r yr affec | J D Hooker

I called on Murray yesterday & emptied my spleen on the Quarterly   I told him that the Review was disgraced, that I should give the cold shoulder to the Editor—as well as to author & that having carefully read the whole thing I regarded the attack on George & yourself “as base as it was baseless”.³ Poor Murray shuddered again & again— I begged him to tell his Editor my opinion of his share in it—as I shall when I meet him