For the early in the summer of 1858 Mr Wallace, who wasthen in the Malay Archipelago, sent me an essay "on the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type"; & this essay contained exactly the same theory as mine. Mr. Wallace expressed the wish that if I thought well of his essay, I should
send it to Lyell for perusal. The circumstances under which I consented at the request of Lyell & Hooker to allow of an extract from my M.S., to gether with a letter to Asa Gray dated Sept 5 1857, to be published at the same time with Wallace's Essay, are given in the Journal of the Porceedings of the Linn: Soc. 1858 p.45. I was at first very unwilling to consent, as I thought Mr. Wallace
might consider my doing so unjustifiable, for I did not then know how generous & noble was his disposition. The extract from my M.S. & the letter to Asa Gray had neither been intended for publication & were badly written. Mr. Wallace's essay, on the other hand was admirably expressed & quite clear. Nevertheless our joint productions excited very little attention,
Charles Darwin, the great English man of Science of the nineteeth century, has not only revolutionized the aims and methods of biological sciences by the profound researches of his own, but has given a great impetus to the progress of human thought in general all over the world....
It is fortunate that when Japan's task of national renovation was just beginning by the introduction of western sciences and institutions our men of science came face to face with such a new and far-reaching theory as advanced by Darwin which represented the highest tide mark of European thought of the nineteeth century...
Imperial University of Tokyo, hand-painted scroll in lqcquer box, presented at the centenary celebration of Darwin's birth at Cambridge. CUL: UA Conf. I.34.116
Prof. Hertwig referred to the influence of Darwin's work upon German biology, particularly at Jena. It was through Haeckel, who hailed Darwinism with delight, and said that evolution was the key of man's destiny, that the theory became predominat in German science. It had been the starting point for all the researches of the younger men, and had entered into the life of the German people. Earlier this year festivals in commemoration of Darwin's work were held in Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, and other towns in Germany. The celebration at Cambridge was the acme of these festivals, and would give an immense
stimulus to the scientific work of the delegates privileged to be present at it....
Prof. Metchnikoff in his address referred to the debt which medical science owes to the theory of organic evolution founded by Darwin. Diseases undergo evolution in accordance with the Darwinian law, and the recognition of this fact led to the science of comparative pathology...
"The Darwin Celebrations at Cambridge", Nature, 81 (1 July 1909), 7-14, at 8 and 11.
达尔文当然伟岸，有文将之与但丁与歌德比肩：
We refer to Darwin in his final aspect as the great imaginative writer of his century. For already it has been recogiz3ed that amid all the richness and variety of genius in the Victorian era, not the Arthurial, nor the Pantheon of Carlyle, nor the vast protrait gallery of Dickens, but "The Descent of Man" of Darwin, is the one dominant work of imagination. The age's true epic. More and more it is being felt that the true position of Darwin with respect to the longer range of thought and feeling beyond his own generation is at the side of Dante and Goethe....a potent organizer and assembler of the age's most vital and controlling dreams, the finished exponent of the peculiar imaginative energy of his time.
Poet Revd Obadiah Cyrus Auringer, writing from Forestport, New York in the New York Times Saturday Review of Books (1 May 1909)
