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sume that your remarks on Man are those to which you 

 alluded in your note. If you had not told me I should have 

 thought that they had been added by some one else. As you 

 expected, I differ grievously from you, and I am very sorry 

 for it. I can see no necessity for calling in an additional and 

 proximate cause in regard to man.* But the subject is too 

 long for a letter. I have been particularly glad to read your 

 discussion because I am now writing and thinking much 

 about man. 



I hope that your Malay book sells well ; I was extremely 

 pleased with the article in the ' Quarterly Journal of Science,' 

 inasmuch as it is thoroughly appreciative of your work : alas ! 

 you will probably agree with what the writer says about the 

 uses of the bamboo. 



I hear that there is also a good article in the Saturday 

 Review, but have heard nothing more about it. Believe me 

 my dear Wallace, 



Yours ever sincerely, 



CH. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Down, May 4 [1869], 



MY DEAR LYELL, I have been applied to for some pho- 

 tographs (carte de visite) to be copied to ornament the diplo- 

 mas 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 sat- 

 isfied yourself on the difficult point of glacier lakes. Thank 



* Mr. Wallace points out that any one acquainted merely with the 

 " unaided productions of nature," might reasonably doubt whether a dray- 

 horse, for example, could have been developed by the power of man direct- 

 ing the " action of the laws of variation, multiplication, and survival, for 

 his own purpose. We know, however, that this has been done, and we 

 must therefore admit the possibility that in the development of the human 

 race, a higher intelligence has guided the same laws for nobler ends." 



