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From:
[Rutherford] [Alcock]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 May 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/140
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
No summary available.
Wishes to inform CD that, contrary to CD’s impression, natural selection is widely accepted in U. S. by educated men; encloses copies of his lectures, papers, and the Index.
Asks for a ticket for THH’s lecture at the Royal Institution for WED. With ED’s and HED’s forgeries of CD’s signature.
Writes of the gentle, peaceful nature of JH's death that morning in the presence of many of the family.