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WCP7291

Letter (WCP7291.8497)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

March 21st. 1894

Dear Sir1

Do you want an article for next months [sic] issue? I read last week a paper at the Cambridge Nat. Science Club on “What Are Zoological Regions”2 – which I have been asked to publish.3

If you wish to have it I will send it you at once, and I would follow it, next month, with a detailed discussion4 of the essential differences between [2] the Palaearctic & Nearctic Regions, – the point most at issue among Zoologists.

yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) was Editor in Chief of Nature 1869-1919.
2
ARW read the paper at the 500th meeting of the Cambridge Natural Science Club on 12 March 1894.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1894. What are zoological regions? Nature 49 (26 April), pp. 610-613.
4
Wallace, A. R. 1894. The palaearctic and nearctic regions compared as regards the families and genera of their mammalia and birds. Natural Science 4 (28): 433-445.

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Transcribed by Chua, Christine [2025-05-16]

Please cite as “WCP7291,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7291