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...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, who communicated it to Sir Charles Lyell...
...Species," 1859: "My work is now nearly finished; but as it will take me many more years to complete it, and as my health is far from strong, I have more especially been induced to do 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...
...sacrilegious son of Belial, who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope and a coral necklace of a chameleon hue, and securing a suite of rooms at a principal hotel, he engaged the head waiter as his conjutor. He then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent...
...addition to the schools that I have mentioned. there is a school of oriental languages. This school is intended to make interpreters, and to instruct merchants or functionaries who are called to distant destinations. Courses are given in the following languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, the languages of Malay and Java, Armenian, modern Greek, Hindostani, Chinese, Japanese, and the language of Annam...