WCP1958

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To C. Darwin.) The Dell, Grays. Essex. Nov 15th. 1872.

Dear Darwin I should have written earlier to thank you for your book, but was hoping to be able to read more of it before doing so. I have not however found time to get beyond the first 3 chapters, but that is quite sufficient to shew² me how exceedingly interesting you have made the subject & how completely & admirably you have worked it out. I expect it will be one of the most popular of your works. I have just been asked to write a review of it for the "Quarterly Journal of Science", — for which purpose I shall be in duty bound to seek out some deficiencies however minute, so as to give my notice some flavour of criticism.

The cuts & photos. are admirable, and my little boy & girl seized it at once to look at the naughty babies.

With best wishes Believe me Yours very faithfully Alfred R. Wallace.

P.S. I will take this opportunity of asking you if you know of any book that will give me a complete catalogue of vertebrate fossils with some indication of their affinities. A. R. W.

To C.Darwin.) The Dell, Grays, Essex. Nov 15th. 1872

Dear Darwin

I should have written earlier to thank you for your book¹, but was hoping to be able to read more of it before doing so. I have not however found time to get beyond the first 5 chapters, but that is quite sufficient to show me how exceedingly interesting you have made the subject & how completely & admirably you have worked it out. I expect it will be one of the most popular of your works. I have just been asked to write a review of it for the "Quarterly Journal of Science",- for which purpose I shall be in duty bound to seek out some deficiencies however minute, so as to give my notice some flavour of criticism.

The outs and photos. are admirable, and my little boy and girl seized it at once to look at the naughty babies.

With best wishes | Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R.Wallace. [signature]

P.S. I will take this opportunity of making you if you know of any book that will give me a complete catalogue of vertebrate fossils with some indication of their affinities. A.R.W.

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The Dell, Grays, Essex. November 15, 1872.

Dear Darwin, I should have written earlier to thank you for your book,¹ but was hoping to be able to read more [2] [p. 280] of it before doing so. I have not, however, found time to get beyond the first three chapters, but that is quite sufficient to show me how exceedingly interesting you have made the subject, and how completely and admirably you have worked it out. I expect it will be one of the most popular of your works. I have just been asked to write a review² of it for the Quarterly Journal of Science,³ for which purpose I shall be in duty bound to seek out some deficiencies, however minute, so as to give my notice some flavour of criticism.

The cuts and photos are admirable, and my little boy and girl seized it at once to look at the naughty babies.

With best wishes, believe me yours very faithfully, | ALFRED R. WALLACE.

P.S. — I will take this opportunity of asking you if you know of any book that will give me a complete catalogue of vertebrate fossils with some indication of their affinities. — A. R. W.