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[1]

53 Harley St.

Cavendish Sq^re_.

8^th Feb. [1864]¹

My dear Sir

I should like in my Bath address² to introduce two or three sentences, I shall not have room for more as I am limited to one hour, on your observations of the two provinces of animal life, the Indian Archipelago province & the New Guinea one, on both sides of certain straits, & the probable connection of two distinct races of man being also separated or nearly so, by the same boundary line.

[2] I am only writing a rough sketch of my Address at present in order that I may write to various correspondents in this country or on the Continent, who may send me the facts & references of wh I stand in need. Having done this, I shall put the manuscript aside for several months, by wh time the Geographical or Ethnological may perhaps have given us a good abstract of your observations & speculations.

[3] But in the mean time you might perhaps tell me where I could find some notice of what you have said, wh I may afterwards improve.

believe me | my dear sir | ver. ty yrs | Cha Lyell³ [signature]