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D^r. Mr Cockerell

I have sent you two papers which may interest you. I forget whether I sent you the "Nearctic" one before. Did you notice when at Corfe the curious Tufa bed about a mile S.W. of the Town [?] Clement Reid (G. Survey) & I have been working at it. There are abundance of land-shells, bones, & worked flints probably Neolithic. There are some curious differences between the species & var. of shells in the Tufa & those now living about which C. Reid will no doubt write soon. I shall soon send you an article criticising Bateson & Galton on Discontin[uous] variation, organic stability &c. I think they have both found mares' nests!

Yours very truly | A.R.Wallace. [signature]

Do you know any one living in the mountains in Jamaica who would send me a few orchids [?] I could grow them now.² [2]

Prof. T.D.A. Cockerell

Coll. of Agriculture

Las Cruces

New Mexico

U. S. A.