From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
30 June 1858
Source of text:
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 3 (1859): 45–6
Summary:
Communicate papers by CD and A. R. Wallace on "The Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species". Explain that CD and Wallace have, independently and unknown to each other, arrived at the same theory to account for the appearance and perpetuation of specific forms, and that neither has yet published, although CD first sketched his theory in 1839. Give their reasons for arranging the joint presentation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project