WCP4406

Letter (WCP4406.4673)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Dec[embe]r. 2nd. 1896

My dear Poulton

Many thanks for your volume on Darwin received this morning. I have already read several chapters, and it seems to me to be admirably well done and to form the best account of Darwin & the Theory of Nat[ural] Select[ion] yet published, and especially adapted to interest the reading public.

I was much pleased yesterday to get the Circular from Galton with a letter, about the1 [2] suggested R[oyal] Soc[iety] Biological Farm. It will be a disgrace to the wealthy Fellows of the Society — <&> there seems to be scores of them — if this is allowed to fail for want of funds. And it will be a disgrace to Darwin’s Country if under any circumstances it is given up.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Original in book 22d 1292

1
The words BIRMINGHAM REFERENCE LIBRARY have been stamped at the bottom of the first page of the letter.
2
Written in pencil by a later hand at foot of letter.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4406.4673)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP4406,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4406