Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wallace sent his essay to Darwin, asking him, if he saw fit, to forward it to Sir Charles Lyell for publication. Lyell and Hooker agreed to publish it only on condition that he (Darwin) would at the same time give to the public the memoirs that they had for so many years endeavored to persuade him to publish, and which they had perused as far back as 1844. The result was, that the essays of Darwin and Wallace were presented, under one title, before the Linnean Society on June...
...this as Mr. Wallace, who is now studying the natural history of the Malay Archipelago, has arrived at almost the same general conclusions that I have on the origin of species. In 1858 he sent me a memoir on this subject with a request that I would forward it to Sir Charles Lyell, who sent it to the Linnean Society, and it is published in the third volume of the journal of that society. Sir C. Lyell and Dr. Hooker, who both knew of my work, honored me by thinking it advisable to publish, with Mr. Wallace's excellent memoirs...
...been again requested by the gentlemen who are collecting subscriptions for cups to be presented to last year's freshman nine, to say that ninety out of the one hundred and twenty odd dollars subscribed up to date have been collected, and to urge upon the sophomores to come forward and pay up the remainder as soon as possible. If the whole amount subscribed is paid, it will enable the management to procure very handsome cups which will serve as substantial memorials of the gallant acts of Eighty-nine. We trust that this last appeal may have its effect...
...great friend, a well-known historian, and told him of the strange coincidence. The friend advised him if there were any documents in proof of his own line of work at the time to publish them instantly. After much reflection and the conclusion that there were none to bring forward, Darwin suddenly remembered that he had once written a letter to Dr. Asa Gray, the famous botanist, of Cambridge, Mass., in which he had expressed the same views that Wallace had announced in his essay. The publication of this letter instantly set Mr. Darwin's claim to the equal right...
...Princetonian looks forward to the most interesting and best contested winter meeting held for a long time...