WCP2079

Letter (WCP2079.1969)

[1]1

The Quarterly Journal of Science

Worsley Villa, St. Domingo Grove,

Liverpool,

May 4 1867

Dear Sir

I have yours of 2d with proof.2

As M[onsieur] Quatrefages3 has written one of the ablest ethnological or anthropological works in the french [sic] language, "L'unité de l'espèce humaine",4 one of your recent additions will hardly mend matters — but perhaps you will allow your name to be appended to the article? It is simply a controversy & your article is kind & courteous, therefore there need be no hesitation on your part — & it will keep me allright [sic] — I reviewed5 [2] the above book "L'Unite" myself & differed from him, & he will think I am very hard upon him.

I am very sorry I cannot get you separate copies — Churchills6 positively refused to allow reprints when they published the J[ourna]l.[?] for their a/c. & I had to refuse some of my best friends Mr Fairbairn,7 &c, and now dare not begin for fear of giving offence to these gentlemen.

Yours truly | James Samuelson [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq

1
Pages 1-2 are numbered 24-25 in the upper right-hand corner of the page by the repository.
2
No letter dated May 2 from ARW to Samuelson has been found. The article is probably Wallace, A. R. 1867. The Polynesians and their Migrations. The Quarterly Journal of Science, 4 (2): 161-165; a review of Quatrefages, A. de (Armand De). [1866?] Les Polynêsiens et leurs Migrations. (The Polynesians and their Migrations) Paris: A. Bertrand.
3
Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de (1810-1892). French biologist and anthropologist, professor of natural history at the Lycée Henri-IV, Paris 1850. Honorary member of the Royal Society of London 1879.
4
Quatrefages, A. de (Armand de). 1861. Unité de l'espèce humaine. Paris: Libraire de L. Hachette.
5
"reviewed" is repeated as a catchword on page [[2]].
6
John Churchill and Sons were the London publishers of The Quarterly Journal of Science edited by James Samuelson and William Crookes.
7
Fairbairn, William (1789-1874). Scottish civil engineer and shipbuilder.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP2079.1969)]

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Transcribed by Powell, Jane [2015-06-24] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP2079,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2079