WCP3388

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Parkstone, Dorset.

March 24th. 1900.

Messrs Macmillan & Co.¹

Dear Sirs

I send you today by Parcel Post, the complete Mss. & proofs — of my "Studies". Also some Wood Blocks I purchased of Chatto & Windus, to illustrate Chap.[ter] 8 Vol.[ume] I. — The cut at p. 101 of my Malay Archipelago, will also be wanted to illustrate this chapter, the original one being too large.

I have had some difficulty in getting the two volumes approximately equal in size, but have done so by putting 7 chapters in volume II. under the heading — "Education" — which may be ^thus classed as forming [2] part of "Social Science". Even now there will be a difference of 30 pages or more, but part of this will be made up by a full Index in Vol.[ume] II., and perhaps you can instruct the printers to begin each Chapter in the second volume an inch lower in the page than in the first volume.

Also print the whole-page plates, which are almost all in the fist volume, on as thin paper as possible.

The photos. of Natives (Veddalis) of which I have not yet got the proofs will come in chapter [3] 21. vol.[ume] I. where they are referred to in the Mss.

Will you please arrange with the printer, when he begins sending me proofs to go on continuously as stoppages for a week or two during the progress of the work are very annoying & confusing.

There is one more point I wish to suggest. Can you have a new uniform cover for my four other books & for "Studies", so as to form a uniform set, — the lettering on back being also so arrayed as to look uniform. Could you also have the Monogram used in "Geog. Distribution" on each volume, with the title round [4] it? I rather think a smooth surface cloth will look better.

I am still waiting for a photo. from Dr. Guilemard² of a Papuan for chap.[ter] 20. — but if he cannot find it when required, we shall have to get it from Stanford. ^{(Australasia. V.[olume] II. p. 399)} Also I may get one or two ^more photos. from America, but they will come in Vol.[ume] II.

I enclose a list of subjects of chapters.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]