I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.


Letter to Darwin, 12 December 1859. Quoted in Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1918), Vol. 1


I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.