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WCP4387

Letter (WCP4387.4641)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

July 7th. 1890

My dear Mr. Poulton1

I have been asked to write a review2 of your book3 for "Nature", & have there said what I have to say about it. I am much pleased with it on the whole. In Chaps. 15 & 16 there are of course many things from which I dissent, but it would require a long article to discuss them all. I have touched on two points in my [2] review, as I almost felt bound to do, but I hope that on the whole you will be satisfied with what I have said about the book.

Believe me| yours very faithfully| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943). British entomologist. Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1890. The colours of animals. Nature 42 (24 July): 289-291.
3
Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1890. The colours of animals, their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner; New York: D. Appleton and Company.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4387.4641)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Envelope (WCP4387.4642)

Envelope addressed to "E. B. Poulton Esq. F.R.S., Banbury Road, Oxford", with stamp, postmarked "PARKSTONE | B | JY 8 | 90". Note in ARW's hand on front of envelope: "I sent a Russian paper. Get it translated if possible"'; a second note in Poulton's hand reads "A. R. Wallace 1890"; postmark on back. [Envelope (WCP4387.4642)]

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