...coincided so exactly with his own views that, as Darwin writes to Lyell, " if Wallace had my manuscript sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract." The story of this interesting episode, so honourable in every respect to all concerned, is told, chiefly...

...worth reading. Your words have come true with a vengeance—that I should be forestalled. You said this, when I explained to you here very briefly my...existence. I never saw a more striking coincidence ; if-Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract!...

...on the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type,' of which Darwin says, " If Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842 he...have made a better short abstract ! Even his terms stand now as heads of my chapters. Please return me the MS., which he does not say he wishes me to...

...paper he wrote to Lyell : ' I never saw a more striking coincidence ; if Wallace had my manuscript sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract ! ' Mr. Wallace made no mention of any intention of publishing the essay, merely requesting that it...

...coincided so exactly with his own views that, as Darwin writes to Lyell, " if Wallace had my manuscript sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract." The story of this interesting episode, so honourable in every respect to all concerned, is told, chiefly...

...paper, of which he says : " I never saw a more striking coincidence ; if Wallace had my manuscript sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract" (vol. ii. p. 116). The natural man, with a natural wish not to be robbed of the fruit of his toil,...

...coincided so exactly with his own views that, as Darwin writes to Lyell, " if Wallace had my manuscript sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract." The story of this interesting episode, so honourable in every respect to all concerned, is told, chiefly...

...breath in surprise. " I never saw a more striking coincidence," he cries ; " if Wallace had my MB. sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made...Even his terms now stand as heads of my chapters." Of course for credence and acceptance, whether before the court of the law or the court of the public,...

...(I. p. 83), that he worked on "true Baconian principles." the original type," of which Darwin says, " If Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842 he...have made a better short abstract ! Even his terms stand now as heads of my chapters. Please return me the MS., which he does not say he wishes me to...

...Darwin found a complete exposition of his own hypothesis. ' If Wallace had my manuscript sketch wiitten out in 1842, he could not have made a better short...Even his terms now stand as heads of my chapters,' he wrote to L veil. Sir Charles Lyell and Sir Joseph Hooker, whose advice Darwin sought, decided that...