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WCP187

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
12 September 1907
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/190
Summary:

Enclosing a paper (not present) on glacial valleys sent by a young man from Middlesborough; death and funeral of Mr Weston; Fred Birch arrived at Minas Geraes; struggling with temperatures and canals of Mars (for Is Mars Habitable?, published Dec 1907), has written to mathematicians Sharpe?, Fisher, Barrett and Poynting on the subject; suffering from asthma, thinks diet the cause; Violet to visit.

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WCP188

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
20 September 1907
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/191
Summary:

An interesting press cutting on Lowell and Mars sent by William; enclosing a cutting (not present) about Kipling; Prof Poynting to reply to Lowell's mathematical paper; ARW's book (presumably Is Mars Habitable?) finished, chapter on temperature of Mars sent to Poynting for comment, MS to go to Macmillan; possibility of mean temperature of planets being affected by rate of rotation, Osmond Fisher's opinion differs from ARW's, Stefan's Law.

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WCP189

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
26 September 1907
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/192
  • Wallace, W. G. & Wallace, V. (1916). Part IV. Home Life. 103-138. In: Marchant, J. (Ed.). Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 122]
Summary:

Sending William's clothes; MS of Mars book (Is Mars Habitable?) sent to Macmillan's after extensive revision and correction, asks William to read proofs, Prof Poynting to read proofs of new chapter.

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