WCP4509

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Frith Hill, Godalming.

Oct^r.. 21^st. 1888

My dear Meldola

Can you let one of your assistants or pupils get me the weight in fractions ^decimals of a grain of each of the enclosed 6 packages of seeds. I only want them approximately, to compare with particles of sand or ^volc[anic] glass carried to great distances by the wind.

I have just today finished the draft MSS¹ of my book. Now I am going to read over & correct & add, — and also [2] see what illustrations I can get for it.

Poulton has sent me some proofs of Weismann’s papers — extremely interesting, but not yet giving me any more matter than I had before, bearing on [main? Man?] question.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]