title: Wallace, Darwin and Ternate 1858.
abstract: Recent debates on the mailing date of Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Ternate essay' to Charles Darwin in the spring of 1858 have ignored certain details that, once taken into account, alter the matter considerably. Here, a closer look is taken at the critical question of whether Wallace's manuscript-accompanying letter represented a reply to the Darwin letter that arrived in Ternate on 9 March; it is concluded that it very probably did not.
authors.forename: Charles H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D049672:History, 19th Century; D008373:Manuscripts as Topic / Q000266:history*; D019021:Natural History / Q000266:history*; D012641:Selection, Genetic