"Voyage of the Beagle," p. 535.
This letter may have been written for publication.
A reference to the loss of his earlier collection (p. 29).
The original of this letter is in the possession of the Trustees of the British Museum.
For the other part of this letter see "My Life," i. 379.
"My early letters to Bates suffice to show that the great problem of the origin of species was already distinctly formulated in my mind; that I was not satisfied with the more or less vague solutions at that time offered; that I believed the conception of evolution through natural law so clearly formulated in the 'Vestiges' to be, so far as it went, a true one; and that I firmly believed that a full and careful study of the facts of nature would ultimately lead to a solution of the mystery."—"My Life," i. 254-7.
"On the Law which has regulated the Introduction of Species."—Ann. and Mag. of Natural History, 2nd Series, 1855, xvi. 184.
"Life of Charles Darwin" (one-vol. Edit.), p. 171.
"Life of Charles Darwin," (one-vol. Edit.), p. 40.
See post, p. 112.