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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 March 1888
Source of text:
- Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 157
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 41]
Summary:
Encloses postage for umbrella Meldola returned. Has had a breakthrough with his hybridity chapter ... "in some cases nat. select. will accumulate variations in infertility between incipient species." Thinks he has made the issue a good deal clearer than Darwin left it.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project