Note F — Chapter XI · COMPARISON OF DARWIN’S AND WALLACE’S SECTIONS OF THE JOINT MEMOIR—RECEPTION OF THEIR VIEWS—THEIR FRIENDSHIP.

Since the above paragraph was written I have again read Professor Newton’s eloquent Address to the Biological Section of the British Association at Manchester in 1887, and find that he says on the same subject—“If in future you should meet with any cynic who may point the finger of scorn at the petty quarrels in which naturalists unfortunately at times engage, particularly in regard to the priority of their discoveries, you can always refer him to this greatest of all cases, where scientific rivalry not only did not interfere with, but even strengthened, the good-feeling which existed between two of the most original investigators” (Report of Meeting, p. 731).