[39] Published by the Ray Society.
[40] Miss Bird is mistaken, as I learn from Professor Mitsukuri.—F. D.
[41] Geolog. Survey Mem., 1846.
[42] Between November 1881 and February 1884, 8500 copies were sold.—F. D.
[43] The falseness of the published statements on which Mr. Huth relied were pointed out in a slip inserted in all the unsold copies of his book, The Marriage of near Kin.—F. D.
CHAPTER III. RELIGION.
My father in his published works was reticent on the matter of religion, and what he has left on the subject was not written with a view to publication.[44]
I believe that his reticence arose from several causes. He felt strongly that a man's religion is an essentially private matter, and one concerning himself alone. This is indicated by the following extract from a letter of 1879:—[45]