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Darwinism
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Title: Darwinism (1889)
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Release Date: January 2, 2005 [EBook #14558]
Language: English
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DARWINISM
AN EXPOSITION OF THE
THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION
WITH SOME OF ITS APPLICATIONS
BY
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
LL.D., F.L.S., ETC.
WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS
MACMILLAN AND CO. LONDON AND NEW YORK [Second Edition] 1889
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[Illustration: Alfred R. Wallace]
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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
The present edition is a reprint of the first, with a few verbal corrections and the alteration of some erroneous or doubtful statements. Of these latter the following are the most important:--
P. 30. The statement as to the fulmar petrel, which Professor A. Newton assures me is erroneous, has been modified.
P. 34. A note is added as to Darwin's statement about the missel and song-thrushes in Scotland.
P. 172. An error as to the differently-coloured herds of cattle in the Falkland Islands, is corrected.