WCP2075

Letter (WCP2075.1965)

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New Malden

Kingston-on-Thames

S.W.

Nov. 10. 1864

Dear Sir.

Thanks for your treatise. The difference between is the mere question of Time; and this only to the following extent. If Geology carries the antiquity of Man beyond a certain point all I do is to criticize the evidence to the best of my power, &, unless I find a flaw in it, take the date it gives. If asked, however, if Ethnology requires an equal antiquity & so [2] strengthens by the inference from Geology, I should say that it did not; the most that could be said being that the two were not incompatible. I suppose you hold that the Ethnological view is positively confirmatory of the Geological.

ever most truly yrs | R G Latham1 [signature]

Latham, Robert Gordon (1812-1888). British ethnologist and philologist.

Please cite as “WCP2075,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2075