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14, ST GILES’,

OXFORD.

March 5. 86

Dear Sir

I kept no copy of my letter to you and cannot therefore from memory reproduce the list of slides I sent you. As to "slides showing protective resemblance" I should wish not to be misunderstood. The observations as to protective resemblance cited in my lecture were made by me on the living pelagic animals described. The exact shades of [2] colour of the animals and their surroundings on which conclusions as to surly protective resemblances are base cannot or at all events never have been reproduced in drawings[.]

The illustrations of the animals in which protective resemblances exist, have been selected by me merely as the best I could find to aid me in explaining my conclusions to an audience after moderate search. The figures of themselves [3] prove nothing as far as my arguments are concerned.

The photographer I employ is Mr R Tucker¹

18 Wilton Road

Dalston

The following are references to the originals of some of my slides.

salpa solitary	) Cuvier
salpa funaria colony	) Regne
2Physaelia	) Animal.
Minylaes loevulea	) Zoophytes
2Glaucus Atlanticus	) Cuvier Regne ) Animal Mollusca.
2Cestus Veneris Chun. Fauna u Flora des Golfes von Neapel Vol 1 Die Cternophoren2

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Ianthina. Coloured plate in J Gwyn Jeffreys British Conchology. Van Voors.³ Z. S. Lib.⁴

Bythotreples Leptodora Velella Porpita Z. S. Lib

) Weismann ) Das Thierleben in Bodensee. figs 1 & 4 ) A Agassiz Exploration of the surface ) fauna of the Gulf Stream Mem Mus Comp Zool Harvard III Part 15

yours truly | H N Moseley⁶ [signature]

Alfred Wallace Esq