WCP2970

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30, Cumberland Road,

Kew.

26^th. October 1909.

Dear M^r. Wallace,

I am happy now to be able to send you a letter, which does not need the trouble of a reply.

1. Pray keep the proofs.

2. I am happy ^glad to find that to go to Orders or sub-orders is low enough in the scale in your opinion.

3. The table prepared in 1896 needs some additions and Corrections[.] I am doubtful whether to reconstruct it or add notes.

'a.There is one new Order of Mammalia "Barypoda" made to include the wonderful Arsinotherium from Fayum Egypt.

b. Fishes have been rearranged by Traquair² & Smith Woodward.³

[2] The wonderful early fishes Cephalarpis, Pteri[illeg.] &c are now found to have no jaws & their internal skeleton is quite unknown. Here Agnathe may have to be made a Class = Pisces or Aves! (Protovertebrates?)

c. Among plants the Cycad filicies are a wonderful group. & must work with, ferns, Cycads — Gymnosperms &c.

I fear you will find the Bull. Catalogues a very bulky matter to deal with. The guides, however, are very useful & good — although prepared for popular use. it will save you the trouble to send for a list (Enclosed)

[3] If you only want to refer to these I will gladly send you on my copies for your use.

I quite agree with you as to the excellence and originality of Smith Woodward's address[.] He might have given them illustrations — e.g.

The Ammonites fell all aboard before giving up the ghost[.] Twisted & untwisted themselves & wriggled in the most uncomfortable manner.

The Trilobites in their last stages were afflicted with knobs & spikes & generally seemed to be trying experiments in acute variation..

[4] Bad as is the case of the horns of Cervus megaceros, it is nothing to the tusks of Elephas ganesa, which must have been nearly as long as the elephant's body — !!

They could not fight with them & the lady-elephants must have had strange tastes to greatly admire them!

Please excuse this long [illeg.] & accept my best thanks for your kind letter.

Your very faithfully | John W. Judd⁴ [signature]