Correspondence on Biology, etc. 



I send this letter by our friend Bates— being ignorant of 

 your address. — Believe me, my dear Sir, ever yours faith- 

 fully, C. KiNGSLEY. 



To Miss A. Buckley' 

 Holly House, Barking, E. Fehruary 2, 1871. 



Dear Miss Buckley, — I have read Darwin's first volume,' 

 and like it very much. It is overwhelming as proving the 

 origin of man from some lower form, but that, I rather 

 think, hardly anyone doubts now. 



He is very weak, as yet, on my objection about the 

 *' hair," but promises a better solution in the second 

 volume. 



Have you seen Mivart's book, '' Genesis of Species "? It 

 is exceedingly clever, and well worth reading. The argu- 

 ments against Natural Selection as the exclusive mode of 

 development are some of them exceedingly strong, and very 

 well put, and it is altogether a most readable and interesting 

 book. 



Though he uses some weak and bad arguments, and under- 

 rates the power of Natural Selection, yet I think I agree 

 with his conclusion in the main, and am inclined to think it 

 is more philosophical than my own. It is a book that I think 

 will please Sir Charles Lyell. — Believe me, yours very truly, 



Alfred R. Wallace. 



To Miss A. Buckley 



Holly House, Barking, E. March 3, 1871. 



Dear Miss Buckley, — Thanks for your note. I am hard at 

 work criticising Darwin. I admire his Moral Sense chapter 

 as much as anything in the book. It is both original and 



^ Private Secretary to Sir Charles Lyell. 

 * " The Descent of Man." 

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