"What has closed the doors of the Academy to Mr. Darwin is that the science of those of his books which have made his chief title to fame—the Origin of Species, and still more the Descent of Man, is not science, but a mass of assertions and absolutely gratuitous hypotheses, often evidently fallacious. This kind of publication and these theories are a bad example, which a body that respects itself cannot encourage."
[267] Mr. Rich leaves a single near relative, to whom is bequeathed the life-interest in his property.
[268] Published in Science and Culture, p. 310.
BOTANICAL WORK.
"I have been making some little trifling observations which have interested and perplexed me much."
From a letter of June 1860.