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EDITORS OF DAILY CRIMSON: There appeared in your columns yesterday an article, entitled "Some Interesting Facts about Darwin and the Origin of Species." The "facts" are interesting. The writer says: "When Darwin was beginning to develop his theory, he received a letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago." Now, Wallace was in the Malay Archipelago, and, as I shall show, Darwin was not beginning to develop his theory, but had matured it already some years back. In 1837, Darwin sketched out a MS., which he copied in 1844, when the copy was read by Dr. Hooker...
...October, 1857, in a letter to Prof. Gray, he repeats his views, and shows that they remained unaltered...
From the above it will be seen that Darwin had put his views upon paper 19 years before he received the essay of his friend Wallace and before the letter to Dr. Gray...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...
Some interesting facts about Darwin were told yesterday in one of the Philosophy courses, as showing how an observance of economic laws often lead to the discovery of natural laws as well as vice versa. When Darwin was just beginning to develop his theory of species he received a letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago. Wallace told him (accompanying this letter was an essay, which Wallace told him contained a new theory on which he [Wallace] wrote) that as the essay was one which contained a new theory on which his thoughts had of late been...