From George Bentham   23 November 1869

My dear M^r Darwin

I understand that you have passed an indulgent judgement on my last Address but at the same time you have met in it with some points on which I am wrong—or what amounts to the same thing—on which you differ from me¹   I do not like encroaching upon your time yet I should feel very much obliged if you could in a few words point out to me what these errors or mistaken views are in order that I may reconsider them and stand corrected. All questions bearing on Geographical distribution have long had a peculiar interest for me and now more particularly since a better acquaintance with the African and Australian floras seem to have placed many things in a different light from that in which they previously appeared, and I am very anxious not to go astray in considering them²

What do you think of Galton’s Hereditary Genius?³

Yours very sincerely | George Bentham