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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
24 August 1911
Source of text:
- Forum Auctions (auction)
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/277
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 f. 216
- Anon. (1912). [Letter to Clement Reid]. Report of the Eightieth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 577-578
Summary:
ARW has read CR's paper on British plants and the glacial period and discusses that subject, asking CR to read ARW's description of Flora of the Azores in Island Life again, and noting the argument about species which have been so derived since the glacial period. Temperature is mentioned as one of many factors; ARW notes that many species could have lived since the Pliocene. ARW suffers from eczema and rheumatism and cannot leave home.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project