WCP4893

Letter (WCP4893.5293)

[1]

76½, Westbourne Grove

Bayswater. W.

Oct. 15th.

Dear Sir

I am now in town for a week at the above address, and should be glad to see you but hardly know if I can find time. Please let me know however what evenings you will be at home and I will try to come.

Saturday I think will most likely suit me.

[2] Will you be so good as to write down for me the names of the species of animals which you informed me had hooks & spiculae imbedded [sic] in their substance & free, & which you thought served the purpose of making them uneatable by other animals.1 Please let me know also if any of these species are conspicuously [3] coloured.

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

H. J. Slack Esq.

1
See Slack, Henry J. 1868 [1867]. Venus's Flower-Basket- Euplectella Speciosa.The Intellectual Observer Review of Natural History Microscopic Research and Recreative Science X11 [161-167], and Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology. 2d edn London: Macmillan. [136].

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Transcribed by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-06-11] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP4893,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 6 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4893