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WCP4548

Letter (WCP4548.4855)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

April 15th. 1901

My dear Meldola1

Thanks for your kind invitation. I may have to pass through London about that time & if so I will try & arrange it. I should like to hear your lecture, but London is more & more an abomination to me, & I never stay a night in it if I can help.

Can you send me on a post card where the Brown University is in America. I am quoting that very interesting case of the sparrows killed by [2] the storm while others survived, & the proof it afforded of rigid selection, — by Prof. Bumpus,2 & I hate giving such a name without locality. It is for a new Ed. of my Darwinism.3

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Prof. R. Meldola.

1
Meldola, Raphael (1849-1915). British chemist and entomologist.
2
Bumpus, Hermon Carey (1862-1943). Prominent professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Brown University. Later Director of the American Museum of Natural History.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1905. Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London & New York: Macmillan & Co. Third Edition [heavily revised].

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4548.4855)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-23] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4548,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4548