From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 1
Summary:
Cannot accept invitation at present.
Is sending a wild honeycomb from Timor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Cannot accept invitation at present.
Is sending a wild honeycomb from Timor.
Acknowledges Orchids with its disclosures of "wonderful adaptations".
Warns that CD aids critics by overstating the difficulties.
Did Owen write the article in the Quarterly Review? [Review of Origin by Samuel Wilberforce, Q. Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.
Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.
Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.
Is unwell and dreads the winter.
Acknowledges 3d edition of Origin.
Praise of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles [1862].