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WCP3529

Letter (WCP3529.3421)

[1]

Frith Hill, Godalming

June 10th 1882

Dear Sir

I know nothing of the French & German Literature of Natural Selection[.] All my books except "Island Life"1 have been translated into German, & some of them into French. All Darwin’s2 works have I believe been translated into those & many other languages. Haeckel’s3 works of course you know.

Yours faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

C. E. Ferguson Esq.

1
Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
2
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).
3
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August (1834-1919). German biologist and philosopher.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3529.3421)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2012-05-30] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3529,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3529