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Parkstone, Dorset

July 11th 1898

Abbott H. Thayer Esq.

Dear Sir¹

Many thanks for your offer to show me your illustrations of protective colouration on shading. I was much interested in the original paper you sent me a year ago, and I shall be very glad of a visit from you whenever convenient. If you have not met him in London I am sure that my friend Prof. Poulton² of Oxford and several other naturalists there would like to see your experiments, and you might [2] perhaps go first ^to Oxford, & then come to me, — or the reverse if more convenient. We shall be glad to give you a bed for a night, as you may not be able to get here till rather late in the day. If you let me know the train you come by I will meet you at the station which is close to my house.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. It may perhaps be more convenient for you to come here from London, as then you can travel by faster trains from Cornwall. ARW.