[106] In the _Contemporary Review_ for August, 1873, Mr. George Darwin wrote an article "On Beneficial Restrictions to Liberty of Marriage." In the July number of the _Quarterly Review_, 1874, p. 70, in an article entitled "Primitive Man--Tylor and Lubbock," Mr. Mivart thus referred to Mr. Darwin's article: "Elsewhere (pp. 424-5) Mr. George Darwin speaks (1) in an approving strain of the most oppressive laws and of the encouragement of vice to check population. (2) There is no sexual criminality of Pagan days that might not be defended on the principles advocated by the school to which this writer belongs." In the _Quarterly Review_ for October, 1874, p. 587, appeared a letter from Mr. George Darwin "absolutely denying" charge No. 1, and with respect to charge No. 2 he wrote: "I deny that there is any thought or word in my essay which could in any way lend itself to the support of the nameless crimes here referred to." To the letter was appended a note from Mr. Mivart, in which he said: "Nothing would have been further from our intention than to tax Mr. Darwin personally (as he seems to have supposed) with the advocacy of laws or acts which he saw to be oppressive or vicious. We, therefore, most willingly accept his disclaimer, and are glad to find that he does not, in fact, apprehend the full tendency of the doctrines which he has helped to propagate. Nevertheless, we cannot allow that we have enunciated a single proposition which is either 'false' or 'groundless.' ... But when a writer, according to his own confession, comes before the public 'to attack the institution of marriage' ... he must expect searching criticism; and, without implying that Mr. Darwin has in 'thought' or 'word' approved of anything which he wishes to disclaim, we must still maintain that the doctrines which he advocates are most dangerous and pernicious."--EDITOR. [107] The pages refer to Vol. II. of Wallace's "Geographical Distribution." [108] The number (4) was erroneously omitted.--A.R.W. [109] An error: should have been the Australian.--A.R.W. [110] Axel Blytt, "Essay on the Immigration of the Norwegian Flora." Christiania, 1876. [111] June 22, 1876, p. 165 _et seq._ [112] "The Origin of Species and Genera." [113] "Island Life."