As you may have noticed -- it is the Darwin
Sesquicentennial. In browsing my copy of the catalogue of the Nabokov family
library in Saint-Petersburg, I noted three Darwin titles:
!) L' éxpression de émotions des l'homme et les
animaux (Paris 1877)
2) The Origin of the Species (New
York)
3) The Descent of Man (New York)
All private editorial communications, without
exception, are
read by both co-editors.