WCP2186

Letter (WCP2186.2076)

[1]1

14, St Giles',

Oxford.

March 5. [18]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 [1 word illeg.] protective resemblances are base<d> 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] 2prove nothing as far as my arguments are concerned.

The photographer I employ is Mr R Tucker3

18 Wilton Road

Dalston

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

Salpa solitary ) Cuvier
Salpa [word illeg.] colony ) Regne
4Physailia ) Animal.
[two words illeg.] ) Zoophytes
4Glaucus Atlanticus

) Cuvier Regne

) Animal Mollusca.4

4Cestus Veneris Chun. Fauna u[nd] Flora des Golfes von Neapel Vol 1 Die Cternophoren5 [4]

Ianthina. Coloured plate in J Gwyn Jeffreys British Conchology. Van Voors[t]6.

[Word illeg.] ) Weismann
Leptodora

) Das Thierleben in Bodensee7. figs 1&4
Velella ) A Agasssiz Exploration of the surface
Porpita

) fauna of the Gulf Stream Mem Mus

Comp Zool Harvard III8 Part 19

Yours truly | A M Moseley [signature] 10

Alfred Wallace Esq

1
Manuscript text in top right hand corner reads "168".
2
Manuscript text in top right hand corner reads "169".
3
Tucker, Robert (1838 — 1907). Photographer.
4
Cuvier, Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric (known as Georges). (1836 — 1849) Le Régne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. 3rd Ed Vol 1-22. Fortin Masson et Cie, Paris.
5
Chun, Cestus Veneris. (1880) Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres -Abschnitte, Cephalopoda, Part 1, Vol. 1, Fascicle 1, Zoological Station, Naples.
6
Jeffreys, John Gwyn. (1862). British conchology: or, an account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas. John van Voorst, London.
7
Weismann, August. (1877). Das Thierleben im Bodensee: gemeinverständlicher Vortrag. Bodensees Umgebung. 7, 1-31.
8
Manuscript in a colour and hand other than the author reads "L.S.Lib VIII", the "VIII" written over the "III" in the original reference.
9
Agassiz, Alexander. Emmanuel, Rodolphe. (1883). Exploration of the surface fauna of the Gulf Stream under the auspices of the Coast Survey. Part I. The Porpitidae and Velellidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
10
A red British Museum crown stamp appears to the right of the signature.

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Transcribed by Coleman, David [2015-05-11] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-05-11] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

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