In 1860, Matthew read in the "Gardeners' Chronicle" for 3 March a review (by Huxley), republished from "The Times", of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", which said Darwin "professes to have discovered the existence and the "modus operandi" of natural selection, and described its principles". A letter by Matthew, published in the "Gardeners' Chronicle" on 7 April, said that this was what he had "published very fully and brought to apply practically to forestry" in "Naval Timber and Arboriculture" in 1831, as publicised in reviews. He quoted extracts from his book, firstly the opening words of Note B from pages 364–365 of the Appendix, stopping before his discussion of hereditary nobility and entail.