Alfred Russel Wallace 



and the more pretentious one in the last number of the 

 North British Review f 



I have written a little article answering them both, but 

 I do not yet know where to get it published. — A. K. W. 



76 J Westbourne Orove, Bayswater^ W. October 1, 1867. 



Dear Darwin, — I am sorry I was not in town when your 

 note came. I took a short trip to Scotland after the British 

 Association Meeting, and went up Ben Lawers. It was 

 very cold and wet, and I could not find a companion or I 

 should have gone as far as Glen Koy. 



My article on " Creation by Law," in reply to the Duke 

 of Argyll and the North British reviewer, is in the present 

 month's number of the Quarterly Journal of Science. I 

 cannot send you a copy because they do not allow separate 

 copies to be printed. 



There is a nice illustration of the predicted Madagascar 

 moth and Angrwcum sesquipedale. 



I shall be glad to know whether I have done it satis- 

 factorily to you, and hope you will not be so very sparing 

 of criticism as you usually are. 



I hope you are getting on well with your great book. 

 I hear a rumour that we are to have one vol. of it about 

 Christmas. 



I quite forget whether I told you that I have a little 

 boy, now three months old, and have named him Herbert 

 Spencer (having had a brother Herbert). I am now stay- 

 ing chiefly in the country, at Hurstpierpoint, but come up 

 to town once a month at least. You may address simply, 

 '* Hurstpierpoint, Sussex.'^ 



Hoping your health is tolerable and that all your family 

 are well, believe me, dear Darwin, yours very faithfully, 



Alfred R. Wallace. 



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