WCP2244

Letter (WCP2244.2134)

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April 30/[18]70

My dear Mr Wallace

I thank you very much for your contributions,1 many of which I have reread in their new form with as much pleasure as I did their old.

That on the action of N[atural]. S[election]. on man2 , still strikes me as the most original &[?] suggestive[?]. That on its "limits"3 I had not seen, it seems to me to be [2] wonderfully acute,4 that I cannot do find it altogether satisfactory — but the fact is that in the present condition of the human sensorium5 the subject is beyond full treatment.

Very sincerely Y[our]s[?]

Jos. D. Hooker [signature]

Wallace, A. R. 1870. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection. A Series of Essays. London: Macmillan & Co.
Wallace, A. R. 1870. The Development of Human Races under the Law of Natural Selection. (Pages following title page are headed "The Action of Natural Selection on Man"). Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection. A Series of Essays. London: Macmillan & Co.[pp. 302-331]. "action of N.S" is circled in pencil in an unknown hand.
Wallace, A. R. 1870. The Limits of Natural Selection as Applied to Man. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection. A Series of Essays. London: Macmillan & Co. [pp. 332-371].
"acute" is circled in pencil in an unknown hand.
The sensory elements of the nervous system collectively. OED.

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