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In February 1855 [[Charles Darwin]], seeking information on variations in domesticated animals of various countries, wrote to Blyth who was "much gratified to learn that a subject in which I have always felt the deepest interest has been undertaken by one so competent to treat of it in all its bearings" and they corresponded on the subject.<ref name=Letter1670>{{cite web |url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-1670.html |title=Darwin Correspondence Project - Letter 1670 — Blyth, Edward to Darwin, C. R., 21 Apr 1855 |accessdate=2009-05-19}}</ref> Blyth was among the first to recognise the significance of [[Alfred Russel Wallace|Wallace's]] paper "On the Law which has regulated the introduction of Species" and brought it to the notice of Darwin in a letter written in [[Calcutta]] on December 8, 1855:
:"What think you of Wallace's paper in the ''Ann. M. N. H.'' ? Good! Upon the whole! ... Wallace has, I think, put the matter well; and according to his theory, the various domestic races of animals have been fairly developed into ''species''. ... A trump of a fact for friend Wallace to have hit upon!"<ref>{{cite book|last=Shermer|first= Michael|year=2002 |title=In Darwin’s shadow : the life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace|url=https://archive.org/details/indarwinsshadowl0000sher|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn= 0-19-514830-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-1792.html |title=Darwin Correspondence Project - Letter 1792 — Blyth, Edward to Darwin, C. R., 8 Dec 1855 |accessdate=2009-05-19}}</ref>
There can be no doubt of Darwin's regard for Edward Blyth: in the first chapter of ''[[On the Origin of Species]]'' he wrote "Mr. Blyth, whose opinion, from his large and varied stores of knowledge, I should value more than that of almost any one, ..."<ref>{{cite book|last=Darwin|first=Charles|title=[[On the Origin of Species]]. First Edition|year= 1859|page=18|url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F373&pageseq=33|isbn=0-8014-1319-2 }}</ref>
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