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WCP4472

Letter (WCP4472.4780)

[1]

Godalming

August 14th. 81

Dear Mr. Meldola1

I send you my paper on "Species & Genera"2 from the "Nineteenth Century". The Chapter in Island Life3 on "Evolution as the Key to distribution" is a modification & amplification of this article.

I have an invitation to York for the B. Ass. & shall be very glad to accept your kind invitation to sleep at your house on Tuesday & [2] go together on Wednesday morning. I will let you know what time you may expect me, later.

Yours very faithfully| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Meldola, Raphael (1849-1915). British chemist and entomologist.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1880. The origin of species and genera. Nineteenth Century 7 (35): 93-106.
3
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.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4472.4780)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-19] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4472,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4472