WCP2053

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11 Norman Road

Rusholne, Manchester

20 Feb. 1881

My dear Sir,

In reading your work on Island Life¹ there are a few points which ^{as it seems to me,} ought to be considered in [illeg.] of a second edition.

pp. 115-116.

(1.) Kirkdale Cave the earliest Hyaena den [illeg.] in this country gives as Reindeer, Hippo, E. antiquus & R. homitæchus as the common prey of the pack of Hyaena inhabiting it.

(2.) The gnawed remains of the Reindeer are equally [illeg.] [2] with all, or with one or other, of the above animals, in the before ^Hyena- Caves, [2 words illeg.] ^Hyena cave, [illeg.] Southern [3 words illeg.] and the [illeg.] Cave, Yorkshire, and as a rule their gnawed bones occur on the Hyena dens on the counties north of the Alps and Pyrenees.

The references you will find in my 'Cave hunting and Early Man, and mainly the paper in the Quart. Geol. Journ. Lond.

This association of Reindeer with Hippo in the Hyena-den under [illeg.] which prove that the same pack of hyenas ate [3] both destroys the climatal [illeg.] of the [illeg.] as far as these animals go, and they get over it by ignoring the Reindeer. You, I am sure, are too scientific to do this in your second edition.

p 117. The R. of Durnter is R. mega[illeg.]

p 118. The views as to the 'interglacial' beds of Cleveland, ohio [sic], put into Prof. Newberry's [illeg.] by Dr James Geikie,² have been reproduced by [4] Prof. Newberry in Geol. Survey of Ohio iii pp 49, 53. The latter expressed his annoyance at being misquoted, to me in New York last December.

These points occur to me as I read, and I am sure that you will not mind my putting them to you as a fellow [illeg.]

I am | My dear sir| Yours truly | W. Boyd Dawkins³ [signature]

A. R Wallace Esq

Croyden