To James Samuelson 12 October [1867]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Oct 12
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind present of Vol IV of the Q. Journal of Science, which I received this morning with a note from Messrs Churchill.2
I have not hitherto taken in this journal, though I have occasionally procured numbers & read various articles with much interest, because I already take in so many periodicals that I am much in arrear in reading them. I have however just got & read the last No. with Mr Wallace’s really admirable article.3 He is a master of clear argument.
Believe me my dear Sir | yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Men and women of the time: The men of the time in 1852 or sketches of living notables. 2d edition, 1853. 3d edition, 1856. 4th edition, 1857. New edition, 1865. 7th edition, 1868. 8th edition, 1872. 9th edition, 1875. 10th edition, 1879. 11th edition, 1884. 12th edition, 1887. 13th edition, 1891. 14th edition, 1895. Men and women of the time: a dictionary. 15th edition. By Victor G. Plarr. 1899. London: David Bogue [and others]. 1852–99.
Summary
Thanks for Quarterly Journal of Science 4 (1867). Has just read Wallace’s admirable article in last number ["Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. He is a master of clear argument.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5647
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Samuelson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5647,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5647.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
