[7] "Travels on the Amazon," p. 277.
[8] "Voyage of the _Beagle_," pp. 11-12.
[9] "Voyage of the _Beagle_," p. 534.
[10] It is interesting to note that the careers of Sir Joseph Hooker,
Charles Darwin, H.W. Bates, Alfred Russel Wallace and T.H. Huxley were
all determined by voyages or journeys of exploration.
[11] "Life of Charles Darwin" (one-volume Edit.), p. 29.
[12] "Voyage of the _Beagle_," p. 535.
[13] This letter may have been written for publication.
[14] A reference to the loss of his earlier collection (p. 29).
[15] The original of this letter is in the possession of the Trustees of
the British Museum.
[16] For the other part of this letter see "My Life," i. 379.
[17] "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.
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