CHAPTER IV. 



EVOLUTION. 



1 864 1 869. 

 To A. R. Wallace. Letter 173 



Down, Jan. 1st, 1864. 



I am still unable to write otherwise than by dictation. In 

 a letter received two or three weeks ago from Asa Gray he 

 writes : " I read lately with gusto Wallace's expost of the Dublin 

 man on Bees' cells, etc." l Now, though I cannot read at 

 present, I much want to know where this is published, that 

 I may procure a copy. Further on, Asa Gray says (after 

 speaking of Agassiz's paper on Glaciers in the Atlantic 

 Magazine and his recent book entitled Method of Sttidy) : 

 " Pray set Wallace upon these articles." So Asa Gray seems 

 to think much of your powers of reviewing, and I mention 

 this as it assuredly is laudari a laudato. I hope you are hard 

 at work, and if you are inclined to tell me, I should much like 

 to know what you are doing. It will be many months, I fear, 

 before I shall do anything. 



To J. L. A. de Ouatrefages. Letter I?4 



Down, March 2yth [1864?]. 



I had heard that your work was to be translated, and I 

 heard it with pleasure ; but I can take no share of credit, for 

 I am not an active, only an honorary member of the Society. 

 Since writing I have finished with extreme interest to the 



1 " Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton's paper on the Bee's Cell and on 

 the Origin of Species" (Ann. and Mag. Nat. fftst^Xll^ 1863, p. 303). 

 Prof. Haughton's paper was read before the Natural History Society of 

 Dublin, Nov. 2ist, 1862, and reprinted in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.* 

 XL, 1863, p. 415. See Letters 73, 74, 75. 



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