WCP4371

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Sept[embe]^r. 10^th 1889

My dear Mr. Poulton

I have today sent your slides by Parcel Post to Lumley Castle. I have quite done with them, having had six of them copied, which is all I require as I have so many others.

I am sorry that my carelessness as to references on small points renders me unable to tell you where I got the fact about the Cocoons of Saturnia. If not in Andrew Murray’s paper which no [2] doubt you have, I can only think of some papers in the papers Reports of the Rugby School Nat[ural] Hist[ory] Society which I had sent me about that time, & which contained some original observations on protective colouring.

T. W. Wood also wrote some popular papers, I think, in some of the Nat[ural] Hist[ory] periodicals which might have contained it, but I have none of these by me.

[3] Hoping you may find it in some of these.

Believe me| Yours faithfully| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. You will have a grand shindy I expect with Romanes in Sect[ion]. D.

I had written a letter in reply to Mr. Cunningham in "Nature" of July 26^th., but I rather expected you, or some other Weismannian to reply to it, & so did not send it. His objection seemed to me easily answered.

A.R.W. [signature]