My dear Darwin.

Your lucubrations have all gone to Press. Busk, Henslow Huxley & I all thought that two of your after notes should go to footnotes¹— 1 That your work was not written with care or for publication.—² & 2^d. the capital illustration regarding cotton seeds fibre.³

I warned you that my tabulation of Bentham was very hasty & inaccurate. ⁴ I introduced discrepancies by 1. Sometimes not always introducing as varieties well known species of Babington quoted as synonyms by Bentham yet somehow not alluded to as vars 2. Generally by accident but not invariably enumerating as a variety the species itself as well as Benthams 1, 2, 3 &c.⁵

All these errors tend to favor me & their elimination would I doubt not favor you— I was anxious to put the matter as favorably as I conscientiously could to my views, that the evidence might be overwhelming if the result was still against me.—

Most of the discrepancies are probably careless ones.

I have had several talks with Busk about your