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To C.Darwin.) Pen-y-bryn, St.Peter's Road, Croydon. oct.11th.1880

My dear Darwin I hope you will have received a copy of my last book "Island Life" as I shall be very glad of your opinion on certain points in it. The first five chapters you need not read as they contain nothing fresh to you, but are necessary to make the work complete in itself. The next five chapters however (VII² to X) I think will interest you, as I think in Chapters VIII & IX, I have found the true explanation of Geological Climates,— and on this I shall be very glad of your candid opinion as it is the very foundation stone of the book. The rest will not contain much that is fresh to you except the three chapters on New Zealand. Sir Joseph Hooker thinks my theory of the Australian & New Zealand floras a decided advance on any thing that has been done before.

In connection with this the chapter on the Azores should be read. Chap. XVI. on the British Fauna may also interest you.

I mention these points merely that you may not trouble yourself to read the whole book unless you like.

Hoping that you are well Believe me Yours very faithfully | Alfred R.Wallace.

To C[harles].Darwin.) Pen-y-Bryn, St. Peter’s Road, Croydon. Oct.11th.1880

My dear Darwin

I hope you will have received a copy of my last book "Island Life"¹ as I shall be very glad of your opinion on certain po points in it. The first five chapters you need not read as they con-tain nothing fresh to you, but are necessary to make the work comple-te in itself. The next five chapters however (VII[?] to X) I think will interest you, as I think in chapters VIII & IX, I have found the true explanation of Geological Climates,- and on this I shall be very glad of your candid opinion as it is the very foundation stone of the book. The rest will not contain such that is fresh to you except the three chapters on New Zealand. Sir Joseph Hooker² thinks my theory of the Australian & New Zealand floras a decided advance on any thing that has been done before.

In connection with this the chapter on the [?] should be read. Chap[ter].XVI. on the British Fauna may also interest you.

I mention these points merely that you may not trouble yourself to read the whole book unless you like.

Hoping that you are well | Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace.

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Pen-y-bryn, St. Peter's Road, Croydon. October 11, 1880.

My dear Darwin, — I hope you will have received a copy of my last book, "Island Life," as I shall be very glad of your opinion on certain points in it. The first five chapters you need not read, as they contain nothing fresh to you, but are necessary to make the work complete in itself. The next five chapters, however (VII. to X.), I think, will interest you. As I think, in Chapters VIII. and IX. I have found the true explanation of geological climates, and on this I shall be very glad of your candid opinion, as it is the very foundation-stone of the book. The rest will not contain much that is fresh to you, except the three chapters [2] on New Zealand. Sir Joseph Hooker¹ thinks my theory of the Australian and New Zealand floras a decided advance on anything that has been done before.

In connection with this, the chapter on the Azores should be read.

Chap. XVI. on the British Fauna may also interest you.

I mention these points merely that you may not trouble yourself to read the whole book, unless you like.

Hoping that you are well, believe me yours very faithfully, | ALFRED R. WALLACE.