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On the Tendency of Varieties to depart indefinitely from the original Type, which proved to be the proximate cause of the publication of Mr. Darwin''s Origin of Species. The manuscript of this paper was sent to Mr. Darwin, and reached him on June 18th, 1858, and the views it expressed coincided remarkably with those developed in Mr. Darwin''s mind by many different lines of investigation. He proposed to get Mr. Wallace''s consent to publish it as soon as possible but on the urgent persuasion of Sir Joseph Hooker and Sir Charles Lyell, a joint communication of some extracts from a manuscript written by Mr. Darwin in 1839 - 1844, and a letter written by him to Professor Asa Gray of Boston, u.s., in 1857, together with Mr.'' Wallace''s paper, was made to the Linnean Society on July Ist, 1858. As Sir Joseph Hooker wrote, The interest excited was intense, but the subject was too novel and too ominous for the old school to enter the lists before armouring and there was no attempt at discussion. The further history of the Origin of Species controversy is well known, and has previously been sketched in the first volume of this library. What deserves repeating and emphasizing is that Mr. Wallace must rank as a completely independent and original discoverer of the essential feature of the Origin of Species. Mr. Wallace originally termed his view one of progression and continued divergence. This progression, he wrote in the Linnean essay.
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On the Tendency of Varieties to depart indefinitely from the original Type, which proved to be the proximate cause of the publication of Mr. Darwin''s Origin of Species. The manuscript of this paper was sent to Mr. Darwin, and reached him on June 18th, 1858, and the views it expressed coincided remarkably with those developed in Mr. Darwin''s mind by many different lines of investigation. He proposed to get Mr. Wallace''s consent to publish it as soon as possible but on the urgent persuasion of Sir Joseph Hooker and Sir Charles Lyell, a joint communication of some extracts from a manuscript written by Mr. Darwin in 1839 - 1844, and a letter written by him to Professor Asa Gray of Boston, u.s., in 1857, together with Mr.'' Wallace''s paper, was made to the Linnean Society on July Ist, 1858. As Sir Joseph Hooker wrote, The interest excited was intense, but the subject was too novel and too ominous for the old school to enter the lists before armouring and there was no attempt at discussion. The further history of the Origin of Species controversy is well known, and has previously been sketched in the first volume of this library. What deserves repeating and emphasizing is that Mr. Wallace must rank as a completely independent and original discoverer of the essential feature of the Origin of Species. Mr. Wallace originally termed his view one of progression and continued divergence. This progression, he wrote in the Linnean essay.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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A. R. Wallace
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