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WCP2084

Letter (WCP2084.1974)

[1]

The Quarterly

JOURNAL OF SCIENCE.

6 Pall Mall East

WORSLEY VILLA, St. DOMINCO GROVE

Liverpool,

April 16 1867

Dear Sir,

If you wish to see me about your paper,1 I shall be at Churchills2 11 New Burlington St. tomorrow morning at from 9.30 to abt 10.30 & here in the afternoon between 5 & 6. — On Thursday mg [morning] here at 9 to 9.15. — after that my movements are uncertain.

Yrs truly | James Samuelson [Signature]

A R Wallace [2]3, 4

1
Wallace, A. R. 1867. The Polynesians and Their Migrations. Quarterly Journal of Science 4: 161-166 (April 1867: no. 14).
2
Churchill, John Spriggs Morss (1801–1875). British medical publisher.
3
A pen annotation is written in ARW's hand on page 2: "Bates | Proc. Ent. Soc. of London. 1867 | A. Murray On the Disguises of Nature | Darwin Origin of Species | Kirby & Spence Entomology." See: Bates, H. W. 1867. On a Collection of Butterflies Formed by Thomas Belt, ESQ., in the Interior of the Province of Maranham, Brazil. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 5 (series 3). 535- 546; Murray, A. 1860. On the Disguises of Nature: Being an Inquiry into the Laws which Regulate External Form and Colour in Plants and Animals. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 11: 66-90; Darwin, C. 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray; Kirby, W. & Spence, W. 1815-1826. An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects, 4 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.
4
A pencil sketch of an unknown subject is added at the bottom right-hand corner of page 2.

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Transcribed by Powell, Jane [2015-07-15] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-07-15] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-09-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2025-03-03]

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