I have been particularly struck with your remarks on geological
distribution in Celebes. It is impossible that anything could be better
put, and [it] would give a cold shudder to the immutable naturalists.
And now I am going to ask a question which you will not like. How does
your Journal get on? It will be a shame if you do not popularise your
researches.
My health is so far improved that I am able to work one or two hours a
day.--Believe me, dear Wallace, yours very sincerely,
CH. DARWIN.
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_9 St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park, N.W. February 4, 1866._
My dear Darwin,--I am very glad to hear you are a little better, and
hope we shall soon have the pleasure of seeing your volume on "Variation
under Domestication." I do not see the difficulty you seem to feel about
two or more female forms of one species. The _most common_ or _typical_
female form must have certain characters or qualities which are
sufficiently advantageous to it to enable it to maintain its existence;
in general, such as vary much from it die out.
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