Alfred Russel Wallace 



but do not let it be ^' little," on Distribution, etc. I have, 

 no hints to give about maps; the subject would require 

 long and anxious consideration. Before Forbes published 

 his essay on Distribution and the Glacial Period I wrote 

 out and had copied an essay on the same subject, which 

 Hooker read. If this MS. would be of any use to you, on 

 account of the references in it to papers, etc., I should be 

 very glad to lend it, to be used in any way ; for I foresee that 

 my strength will never last out to come to this subject. 



I have been pretty well since my return from Wales, 

 though at the time it did me no good. 



We shall be in London next month, when I shall hope 

 to see you. — My dear Wallace, yours very sincerely, 



Ch. Darwin. 



9 St. Mark's Crescent, N.W. December 4, [1869]. 



Dear Darwin, — Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer, who trans- 

 lated my book into German, has written to me for per- 

 mission to translate my original paper in the Linnean 

 Proceedings with yours, and wants to put my photograph 

 and yours in it. If you have given him permission to 

 translate the papers (which I suppose he can do without 

 permission if he pleases), I write to ask which of your 

 photographs you would wish to represent you in Germany 

 — the last, or the previous one by Ernest Edwards, which 

 I think much the best — as if you like I will undertake to 

 order them and save you any more trouble about it. It 

 is, of course, out of the question our meeting to be photo- 

 graphed together, as Mr. Meyer coolly proposes. 



Hoping you are well, believe me yours very faithfully, 



Alfred E. Wallace. 



P.S. — I have written a paper on Geological Time, which 

 will appear in Nature, and I thinh I have hit upon a solu- 

 tion of your greatest difficulties in that matter. — A. R. W. 



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