Abstract
On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in London. The first printing was sold out to the book trade almost immediately, necessitating a second printing the following month, on December 28.' Darwin had been corresponding since May 1857 with the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, then traveling in the Malay Archipelago collecting birds and insects. A year later, in June-July 1858, had come the famous "joint papers," precipitated by Darwin's receipt from Wallace of his paper "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type," read before the Linnean Society of London on July 1, along with contributions by Darwin.2 This in turn hastened the publication of Darwin's Origin, as he noted in the introduction:
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