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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
24 December 1860
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/49
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 72-73]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 197-199]
Summary:

ARW's admiration of Darwin's Origin of species; birds and mammals better indicators of zoological geography than insects; exchange of specimens with Bates; plans to return to England in about 18 months; imminent voyage to Timor.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project