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THEOKIES AS TO THE NATUEE OF SPECIES, [Ch. XXXV. 



Lems 

 most 



ror 



eighteen years tliese researches had all been pointing to the 

 same conclusion, namely, that the species now living^ had been 



from 



from 



MS. volumes 



Dr. Hooker as long ago as 1844, and how long the ever- 

 accumnlating store of facts and reasonings might have re- 

 mained nnknown to the general public, had no one else 



say 



mpted to work out the same problem, it is impossibL 

 But at length Mr. Darwin received a commun 



tion, dated February 1858, from Mr. Wallace, then re- 



siding at Ternate 

 the Tendency of 

 Original Type.' 

 The Author reo 



Malay 



from 



Mr 



me should he think it sufficiently n 

 It was broup-ht to me bv Dr. Hooker 



and interesting. 



memoir 



complete was the coincidence of Mr. Wallace's new views 

 and those contained in one of the chapters of Mr. Darwin's 

 unpublished work. Accordingly, he suggested that it would 

 be unfair to let Mr. Wallace's essay go to press unaccom- 



on the same subject. Although, 

 therefore, Mr. Darwin was willing to waive his claim to 

 priority, the two papers were read on the same evenii 

 the Linncoan Society and published in their Proceedings for 

 1858. The title of the chapter extracted from Mr, Darwin's 

 MS. ran as follows : ^ On the Tendency of Species to form 

 Varieties, and on the Perpetuation of Species and Varieties 



Natural Means 



Mr 



had sent to Professor Asa Gray, the celebrated American 



forthcom 



Natural 



by the Linnsean Society together with the papers above alluded 

 to, contained .an outline of the leading features of his theory 

 of selection as since explained, showing how new races were 

 formed by the breeder, and how analogous results might or 



