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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, by Alfred Russel Wallace This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Author: Alfred Russel Wallace Release Date: August 29, 2007 [EBook #22428] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.) _CONTRIBUTIONS TO_ THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION. A Series of Essays. BY ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, AUTHOR OF "THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO," ETC., ETC. _SECOND EDITION, WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS._ New York: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1871. [_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved._] LONDON: PRINTED BY HEAD, HOLE & CO., FARRINGDON STREET, AND IVY LANE, E.C. PREFACE. The present volume consists of essays which I have contributed to various periodicals, or read before scientific societies during the last fifteen years, with others now printed for the first time. The two first of the series are printed without alteration, because, having gained me the reputation of being an independent originator of the theory of "natural selection," they may be considered to have some historical value. I have added to them one or two very short explanatory notes, and have given headings to subjects, to make them uniform with the rest of the book. The other essays have been carefully corrected, often considerably enlarged, and in some cases almost rewritten, so as to express more fully and more clearly the views which I hold at the present time; and as most of them originally appeared in publications which have a very limited circulation, I believe that the larger portion of this volume will be new to many of my friends and to most of my readers. I now wish to say a few words on the reasons which have led me to publish this work. The second essay, especially when taken in connection with th
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