Alfred Russel Wallace 



there are lots of sexual characters which quite baffle all 

 powers of even conjecture. 



You are quite correct, that I felt forced to make all 

 additions to the ^^ Origin '^ as short as possible. 



I am indeed pleased to hear, and fully expected, that 

 your Malay work would be known throughout Europe. 



Oh dear ! what would I not give for a little more strength 

 to get on with my work. — Ever yours, q Darwin. 



I wish that you could have told me that your place in 

 the new Museum was all settled. 



9 St. Mark's Crescent, N.W. October 20, 1869. 



Dear Darwin, — I do not know your son's (Mr. George 

 Darwin's) address at Cambridge. Will you be so good 

 as to forward him the enclosed note begging for a little 

 information ? 



I was delighted to see the notice in the Academy that 

 you are really going to bring out your book on Man. I 

 anticipate for it an enormous sale, and shall read it with 

 intense interest, although I expect to find in it more to 

 differ from than in any of your other books. Some reason- 

 able and reasoning opponents are now taking the field. I 

 have been writing a little notice of Murphy's ''Habit and 

 Intelligence," which, with much that is strange and unin- 

 telligible, contains some very acute criticisms and the 

 statement of a few real difficulties. Another article just 

 sent me from the Month contains some good criticism. 

 How incipient organs can be useful is a real difficulty, so 

 is the independent origin of similar complex organs; but 

 most of his other points, though well put, are not very 

 formidable. I am trying to begin a little book on the Dis- 

 tribution of Animals, but I fear I shall not make much of 

 it from my idleness in collecting facts. 



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