WCP7007

Letter (WCP7007.8116)

[1]

Holly House,

Barking, E.

Decr. 3rd. 1871

Dear Dr. Dohrn

Have you published anywhere in English, an abstract of your researches on the development of Arthropoda?1, 2 If not can you send a short statement of your chief results which I want to notice in my Address to the Ent[omological]. Society in January.3 I would also send it for publication to "Nature" & "The Academy".

A reply as soon as possible will much oblige.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Dr. Anton Dohrn

1
Invertebrate animals with an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages; forming the phylum Euarthropoda, which includes insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans. Dohrn was working on a paper on Limulus polyphemus, the Horseshoe crab.
2
Dohrn, Anton. 1871. Untersuchungen über Bau und Entwickelung der Arthropoden. 12. Zur Embryologie und Morphologie des Limulus Polyphemus. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Medizin und Naturwissenschaft 6: pp. 580-640.
3
Annual Meeting, 22 January, 1872. Presidential Address. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for the year 1871. London: [1872]. pp. xlix - lxvi. "Dr. Packard ... believes that the Insecta and Crustacea have been independently evolved ... Dr. Anton Dohrn is now engaged in a systematic study of this subject ... He has hitherto principally occupied himself with the Crustacea, but seems inclined to revive the old idea of the possibility of finding homologies between the Annulose and Vertebrate types." [p. lxix].

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