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" 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! Even his terms now stand as heads of my chapters. "
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter - Page 473
by Charles Darwin - 1887 - 395 pages
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Nature, Volume 37

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1888 - 668 pages
...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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 143

1888 - 926 pages
...Selection depending on the struggle for existence. I never saw a more striking coincidence : if Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842, he could not...shall, of course, at once write and offer to send it to any journal. So all my originality, whatever it may amount to will be smashed, though my book,...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1888 - 572 pages
...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 could not...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 166

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...Selection ' depending on the struggle for 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 ! Even his torms now stand as heads of my chapters. Please return me the MS., which he does not say he wishes...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 14

Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1888 - 496 pages
...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...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 102

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - 742 pages
...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,...
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Nature, Volume 37

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1888 - 674 pages
...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...
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Nature, Volume 37

Science - 1888 - 868 pages
...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...
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Darwinianism: Workmen and Work

James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...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,...
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Darwiniana: Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...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 could not...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...
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