WCP4578

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Pen-y-bryn, St. Peters R^d, Croydon.

Nov^r.. 16^th. 1880

Dear McLachlan

I shall have no objection to give a lecture on the terms you name, but as I do not like going home at night in bad weather, I suppose some of your members can give me a bed.

I propose for a subject — "The Biological Relations of N[ew] Zealand and Australia."

I did not say anything of the Falkland Islands, because I knew so little about them, and did not see that they illustrated any part of the [2] subject so well as some other islands I have chosen, & the Palearctic element in the S[outh] Temperate fauna has already been sufficiently treated in my Geog[raphical] Dist[ribution].

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]