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Darwin, in which he repeats his views, and which shows 

 that these remained unaltered from 1839 to 1857. 



"3. An essay by Mr. Wallace, entitled 'On the Tendency 

 of Varieties to depart indefinitely from the Original 

 Type.' This was written at Ternate in February, 1858, 

 for the perusal of his friend and correspondent, Mr. 

 Darwin, and sent to him with the expressed wish that it 

 should be forwarded to Sir Charles Lyell, if Mr. Darwin 

 thought it sufficiently novel and interesting. So highly 

 did Mr. Darwin appreciate the value of the views therein 

 set forth, that he proposed, in a letter to Sir Charles 

 Lyell, to obtain Mr. Wallace's consent to allow the essay 

 to be published as soon as possible. Of this step we 

 highly approved, provided Mr. Darwin did not withhold 

 from the public, as he was strongly inclined to do (in 

 favour of Mr. Wallace) the memoir which he had him- 

 self written on the same subject, and which, as before 

 stated, one of us had perused in 1844, and the contents 

 of which we had both of us been privy to for many 

 years. On representing this to Mr. Darwin, he gave us 

 permission to make what use we thought proper of his 

 memoir, &c. ; and in adopting our present course, of 

 presenting it to the Linnean Society, we have explained 

 to him that we are not solely considering the relative 

 claims to priority of himself and his friend, but the 

 interests of science generally; for we feel it to be 

 desirable that views founded on a wide deduction from 

 facts, and matured by years of reflection, should consti- 

 tute at once a goal from which others may start, and 

 that, while the scientific world is waiting for the appear- 

 ance of Mr. Darwin's complete work, some of the 



