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do not believe in it and who is willing to pay to be 

 enlightened. 



Will you also give me your advice on another point ? 

 I am about to publish all my papers which bear upon 

 Natural Selection, etc., in a volume. I should like an 

 attractive title, but will not have a misleading one. I 

 have at present fixed upon " Contributions to the Theory 

 of Natural Selection. A Series of Essays," as exactly 

 expressing what the book will be. Macmillan has a 

 dislike to the word Contributions, and wants me to call 

 it " Essays on Natural Selection," or '* On Natural 

 Selection ; a Series of Essays." But these indicate too 

 much a complete work on a definite subject to please 

 me. 



Do you think my title will do, or can you suggest 

 anything quite different ? 



Yours very faithfully, 



Alfred R. Wallace. 



A.N. to Edward Newton 



Cambridge, 



April 14, 1870. 



He told me the day I got there that the digging 

 which Greenwell (he is a Canon of Durham and the 

 greatest resurrectionist in England) has been carry- 

 ing on for some years at Grime's Graves on Weeting, 

 behind Broomhill, had at last produced something, and 

 I made Newcome drive me over next day. Last year I 

 went there but there was nothing to be seen but a great 

 number of depressions (about 200 they say) like ordinary 

 disused stone pits. 



All the old antiquaries have always said that these 

 were the remains of an ancient British village or town ; 

 but Greenwell found the country all round, and particu- 

 larly on the Brandon side, so covered with old worked 

 flints that he was sure that the depressions were the 

 remains of pits made in the old time to get flint. It 

 now appears that he was right, and I don't know 



