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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 November [1870]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 207-208
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 253-254]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 229-230]
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7381

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 85
Summary:

Sofya Kovalevsky not admitted to University in Berlin.

Translating the four sheets CD sent. When will book [Descent] be printed?

Alexander [Kovalevsky] has gone to the Red Sea to study corals.

Will work on live Scalpellum at Naples in spring.

Bemoans England’s Prussian sympathies. Paris will fall without bombardment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8)
Summary:

Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.

Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].

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