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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Alfred Russel Wallace

Date:

18 May 1860

Source of text:

The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v)

Summary:

Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.

Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.

Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Alfred Russel Wallace

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

[Dec? 1860]

Source of text:

DAR 45: 1

Summary:

Gives an extract from L. von Buch on the flora of the Canaries [Physikalische Beschreibung der Canarische Inseln (1825)].

Natural selection does not explain why animals of different groups in the same place often resemble each other.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project