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From:
Edwin Birchall
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 December 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 82-83
Summary:
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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On Wallace’s need for a regular income. He has been rejected as Superintendent of Epping Forest. Thinks men such as Lubbock, Hooker, and CD might help.
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Thanks for AG’s trouble about the seeds. Is curious to see their germination and the early seedling growth.
Asks for cotton seeds, as he observes odd movements of the cotyledon.
Reports information sent by E. Schulte [12254] on the colours of the male Diadema bolina.
Discusses extent to which consciousness came into play in the origin of certain instincts, including sexual display.