CHAPTER IV. 



EVOLUTION. 

 1864— 1869. 



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 expostoi the Dublin 

 man on Bees' cells, etc." 1 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 Study) : 

 " 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 , 74 



Down, March 27th [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 



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

 the Origin of Species" {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Nist.,' Xll ., 1863, p. 303). 

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

 Dublin, Nov. 21st, 1862, and reprinted in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.. 

 XI., 1863, p. 415- See Letters 73, 74, 75- 



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