RECORD: S126b. Wallace, A. R. 1867. Discussion [regarding the views of Mr.C.A.Wilson on insect acclimatization in Australia]. Journal of Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1867 in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 5: lxxiii.
REVISION HISTORY: Body text helpfully provided by Charles H. Smith from his Alfred Russel Wallace Page http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S126B.htm
Mr. A. R. Wallace remarked upon the rapidity with which the insects mentioned by Mr. Wilson had adapted their mode of life to the altered circumstances in which they found themselves placed; thirty years ago there was not a cow in South Australia, and yet members of three families of Coleoptera, so widely separated as the Paussidæ, Carabidæ and Copridæ, had already become habitual frequenters of cow-dung; and this was the more remarkable in the Calosoma, whose British congener was arboreal in its habits.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2012-. Wallace Online. (http://wallace-online.org/)
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