1870.] MR. WALLACE'S 'NATURAL SELECTION.' 121 



tion ' (1870), a collection of essays reprinted with certain 

 alterations of which a list is given in the volume :] 



C. Darwin to A. R. Wallace. 



Down, April 20 [1870]. 



My DEAR WALLACE, — I have just received your book, 

 and read the preface. There never has been passed on me, or 

 indeed on any one, a higher eulogium than yours. I wish 

 that I fully deserved it. Your modesty and candour are very 

 far from new to me. I hope it is a satisfaction to you to 

 reflect — and very few things in my life have been more satis- 

 factory to me — that we have never felt any jealousy towards 

 each other, though in one sense rivals. I believe that I can 

 say this of myself with truth, and I am absolutely sure that 

 it is true of you. 



You have been a good Christian to give a list of your 

 additions, for I want much to read them, and I should hardly 

 have had time just at present to have gone through all your 

 articles. Of course I shall immediately read those that are 

 new or greatly altered, and I will endeavour to be as honest 

 as can reasonably be expected. Your book looks remarkably 

 well got up. 



Believe me, my dear Wallace, to remain, 



Yours very cordially, 



Ch. Darwin. 



[Here follow one or two letters indicating the progress of 

 the ' Descent of Man ; ' the woodcuts referred to were being 

 prepared for that work :] 



C. Darwin to A. Giinther* 



March 23, [1870?] 

 Dear Gunther, — As I do not know Mr. Ford's address, 

 will you hand him this note, which is written solely to express 



* Dr. Gunther, Keeper of Zoology in the British Museum. 



