1869.] MAN M. DE QUATREFAGES. II? 



graphs (carte de visite) to be copied to ornament the diplomas 

 of honorary members of a new Society in Servia ! Will 

 you give me one for this purpose ? I possess only a full- 

 length one of you in my own album, and the face is too small, 

 I think, to be copied. 



I hope that you get on well with your work, and have 

 satisfied yourself on the difficult point of glacier lakes. Thank 

 heaven, I have finished correcting the new edition of the 

 ' Origin,' and am at my old work of Sexual Selection. 



Wallace's article struck me as admirable; how well he 

 brought out the revolution which you effected some 30 years 

 ago. I thought I had fully appreciated the revolution, but I 

 was astounded at the extracts from Cuvier. What a good 

 sketch of natural selection ! but I was dreadfully disappointed 

 about Man, it seems to me incredibly strange . . . ; and had 

 I not known to the contrary, would have sworn it had been 

 inserted by some other hand. But I believe that you will not 

 agree quite in all this. 



My dear Lyell, ever yours sincerely, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to J. L. A. de Quatrefages. 



Down, May 28 [1869 or 1870]. 



DEAR SIR, I have received and read your volume,* and 

 am much obliged for your present. The whole strikes me as 

 a wonderfully clear and able discussion, and I was much 

 interested by it to the last page. It is impossible that any 

 account of my views could be fairer, or, as far as space per- 

 mitted, fuller, than that which you have given. The way in 

 which you repeatedly mention my name is most gratifying to 

 me. When I had finished the second part, I thought that 

 you had stated the case so favourably that you would make 



* Essays reprinted from the the title * Histoire Naturelle Ge'ne- 

 1 Revue des Deux Mondes,' under rale/ &c., 1869. 



