WCP3746

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The Dell, Grays, Essex

April 26th, 1875

My dear Flower¹

My Mss.[Manuscript] on "Fossil Zoology" will be brought you tomorrow (Tuesday) morning by Miss Buckley², who has been staying with us, & who wants to see something in the Museum. I send the Chapter Entire, but you need read no more than you like.

The parts I fear I am most deficient in are recent European discoveries in fossil Mammals, and also as to tertiary Reptiles [2] and fishes; and if you can refer me to any recent works or papers on these I shall be obliged. At the same time you will see that the plan of my chapter does not require any great amount of detail, except as to forms dearly allied to, or anticipatory of, living groups. ³Marsh⁴'s recent papers have I hope, enabled me to make the account of American extinct Mammalia pretty complete.

I did not read Huxley's⁵ Geol.[ogical] Soc.[ociety] Address on "Paleontology & Evolution" till I had finished my chapter,—but I have since altered one or two passages owing to suggestions derived from [3] it. The agreement in many conclusions arises from obvious inferences from the same evidence.

Besides corrections of errors, and notes as to omissions, any criticisms will be most acceptable.

If when you return ^{to London} you will leave the Mss. for me at the Library of the Geol.[ogical] Society, I will call for it.

With many thanks for your kindness in undertaking to give me the advantage of your knowledge of this subject.

I remain | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

W. H. Flower, Esq.