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]
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