Alfred Russel Wallace 



still arriving from correspondents in the East, it is prin- 

 cipally the drudgery of cleaning, packing, and arrangement. 



On the opposite page I give all the information I can 

 about the Timor fossils, so that you can send it entire to 

 Dr. Falconer. 



With best wishes for the speedy recovery of your health, 

 I remain, my dear Mr. Darwin, yours very faithfully, 



Alfred E. Wallace. 

 Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E. January 1, 1864. 



Dear Wallace, — 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 expos6 of the Dublin man on Bee cells, etc.''* 



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. 



Pray believe me yours very sincerely, qh. Darwin. 



6 Wesibourne Grove Terrace, W. January 2, 1864. 



My dear Darwin, — Many thanks for your kind letter. I 

 w^as afraid to write because I heard such sad accounts of 

 your health, but I am glad to find that you can write, and 



1 Wallace's paper was entitled. " Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton's 

 Paper on the Bee's Cells and on the Origin of Species." Prof. Haughton's 

 paper appeared in the Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 1863, xi. 415. Wallace's was 

 published in the same journal. 



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