From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.
Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].
CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.