To A. R. Wallace 3 November 1880
Summary
High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12791 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), CD remarked: ‘I said to Günther many months ago that the most probable view about his tortoises seemed to me to be that various closely allied forms had once been distributed over almost the whole world. ’ Augustus Addison Gould had described the Mollusca and shells collected by the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific, 1838–42 ( Gould 1852–6 ). In a letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 December 1857 ( …
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