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From:
Giovanni Battista Emilio Cerruti
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 July 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 187-188
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
No summary available.
Hibiscus and Nolana seeds not harvested at Kew. Sends list of the best plants of Lilium he can give.
Asks CD for name of work on orchids mentioned in his supplementary paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
No summary available.
Financial adjustments for last edition of Origin
and a tentative title for the new work: "Descent of man and selection according to sex". [Later changed to "in relation to sex".]
Sends copies of a mission magazine [missing] and discusses the missionaries’ work in S. America, especially that of Thomas Bridges and W. H. Stirling.
Wants to keep "The origin of man" as first part of title of book.