Alfred Russel Wallace 



(with numerous misrepresentations) than Owen is in the 

 Edinhurgli Review. I must give one instance ; he throws 

 doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of 

 cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have 

 not found them to be branchiae ; whereas he Imnself admits, 

 before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, 

 that their organs are branchife. The attacks have been 

 heavy and incessant of late. Sedgwick and Prof. Clarke 

 attacked me savagely at the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society, but Henslow defended me well, though not a con- 

 vert. Phillips has since attacked me in a lecture at Cam- 

 bridge; Sir W. Jardine in the Edinburgh 'New Philoso- 

 pMcal Journal^ Wollaston in the Annals of Nat. History y 

 A. Murray before the Koyal Soc. of Edinburgh, Haughton 

 at the Geological Society of Dublin, Dawson in the Canadian 

 Nat. Magazine^ and many others. But I am getting case- 

 hardened, and all these attacks will make me only more 

 determinedly fight. Agassiz sends me personal civil mes- 

 sages, but incessantly attacks me ; but Asa Gray fights like 

 a hero in defence. Lyell keeps as firm as a tower, and this 

 autumn will publish on the Geological History of Man, and 

 will then declare his conversion, which now is universally 

 known. I hope that you have received Hooker's splendid 

 essay. So far is bigotry carried that I can name three 

 botanists who will not even read Hooker's essay!! Here 

 is a curious thing : a Mr. Pat. Matthews, a Scotchman, 

 published in 1830 a work on Naval Timber and Arbori- 

 culture, and in the appendix to this he gives most clearly 

 but very briefly in half-dozen paragraphs our view of 

 Natural Selection. It is a most complete case of anticipa- 

 tion. He published extracts in the Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 I got the book, and have since published a letter acknow- 

 ledging that I am fairly forestalled. Yesterday I heard 

 from Lyell that a German, Dr. Schaffhausen, has sent him a 



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