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On the Origin of Species

INTRODUCTION
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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 exactly 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 in the third volume of the Journal of that Society.

Sir C.Lyell and Dr.
Hooker, who both knew of my work--the latter having read my sketch of 1844--honoured me by thinking it advisable to publish, with Mr.
Wallace's excellent memoir, some brief extracts from my manuscripts.
This abstract, which I now publish, must necessarily be imperfect.

I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy.
No doubt errors may have crept in, though I hope I have always been cautious in trusting to good authorities alone.

I can here give only the general conclusions at which I have arrived, with a few facts in illustration, but which, I hope, in most cases will suffice.


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