To A. R. Wallace 6 July [1867]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
July 6
My dear Wallace
I am very much obliged for your article on mimicry, the whole of which I have read with the greatest interest.2 You certainly have the art of putting your ideas with remarkable force & clearness; now that I am slaving over proof sheets it makes me almost envious.3
I have been particularly glad to read about the bird’s nests, & I must procure the Intellectual Observer;4 but the point which I think struck me most was about it being of no use to the Heliconias to acquire in a slight degree a disagreeable taste.5
What a curious case is that about the coral snakes.6 The summary & indeed the whole is excellent & I have enjoyed it much.
With many thanks | yours very sincerely. | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Acknowledgment of article on mimicry [Westminster Rev. 88 (1867): 1–43].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5579
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add 46434, f. 92)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5579,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5579.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15