To James Samuelson   12 October [1867]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Oct 12

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your kind present of Vol IV of the Q. Journal of Science, which I received this morning with a note from Messrs Churchill.2

I have not hitherto taken in this journal, though I have occasionally procured numbers & read various articles with much interest, because I already take in so many periodicals that I am much in arrear in reading them. I have however just got & read the last No. with Mr Wallace’s really admirable article.3 He is a master of clear argument.

Believe me my dear Sir | yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the reference to volume 4 of the Quarterly Journal of Science, which was published in 1867.
2
Samuelson was the founder and co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Science (Men and women of the time 1899). The journal was published by John Churchill and Sons.
3
Alfred Russel Wallace’s article, ‘Creation by law’ (A. R. Wallace 1867c), appeared in the October issue of the Quarterly Journal of Science. For more on the article, see the letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5647,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5647