WCP2096

Letter (WCP2096.1986)

[1]

73, Harley St

London. W.

[22 October 1867]1

Dear Mr Wallace

I was very glad to get your grand list of papers which ought to satisfy even those who vote species-describing to be the real work of a naturalist & all the profounder views of philosophy to be mere writing for the amusement of the public.

On looking down the list I see some papers which I have not got & ought to read. Before I set to [2] work to try & buy them I will ask you if you happen by chance to have spare copies of them & in that case could let me have them that I may bind them up with others which you have given me or which I have extracted from different periodicals purchased with that object.

1st On Monkeys of the Amazon. Zool[ogical] Soc[iety] /[18]522

2nd Habits of Butterflies of Amazons. Entomological Trans[actions] /[18]533

3. Geographical Dist[ribution]. of birds Ibis 1859.4

4. Value of osteological characters in classification of birds. ann[als] & mag[azine] of Nat[ural] Hist[ory] /1[8]565

[3] 5. On a natural arrangement of birds. Ann[als] & Mag[azine]. 1856 /[18]57 — 86

6. Three papers on Borneo Orang-utan — ann[als] & mag[azine] 1857/ — [18]587

7. On Rev. S. Haughton[']s Paper on Bee[']s Cells & origin of species. ann[als] mag[azine]. 1863.8

8. Progress of civilization in northern Celebes[.] Ethnological Trans[actions]. 1865.9

If the papers on the landshells of the Malay archipelago Proc[eedings]. of [the] Zool[ogical]. Soc[iety] 1865 contains an[y] general views about species in islands10 I must must [sic] it up. You will not be likely to have duplicate of that but please tell me if it contains any general views or only relates to description of new [4] species[.]

most truly yours | Cha Lyell [signature]

1
"'Octr 22. 1867." is written in ARW's hand at the upper right-hand corner of page 1.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1852. On the Monkeys of the Amazon. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 20: 107-110.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1854. On the Habits of the Butterflies of the Amazon Valley. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2 (n.s.), part VIII: 253-264 (April 1854).
4
Wallace, A. R. 1859. Letter From Mr. Wallace Concerning the Geographical Distribution of Birds. Ibis 1: 449-454 (Oct. 1859: no. 4).
5
Wallace, A. R. 1864. Remarks on the Value of Osteological Characters in the Classification of Birds. Ibis 6: 36-41 (Jan. 1864: no. 21).
6
Wallace, A. R. 1856. Attempts at a Natural Arrangement of Birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18 (2nd s.): 193-216 (Sept. 1856: no. 105, 2nd s.).
7
Wallace, A. R. 1856. On the Habits of the Orang-utan of Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18 (2nd s.): 26-32 (July 1856: no. 103, 2nd s.); 1856. On the Orang-utan or Mias of Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17 (2nd s.): 471-476 (June 1856: no. 102, 2nd s.); Some Account of an Infant "Orang-utan." Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17 (2nd s.): 386-390 (May 1856: no. 101, 2nd s.).
8
Wallace, A. R. 1863. Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton's paper on the bee's cell, and on the origin of species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3rd series, 12: 303-309.
9
Wallace, A. R. 1866. On the Progress of Civilization in Northern Celebes. Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 4 (n.s.): 61-70.
10
Wallace, A. R. 1865. List of the Land Shells Collected by Mr. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, With Descriptions of the New Species by Mr. Henry Adams. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 405-416.

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