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Letter from A. R. Wallace to Dr Bates, from Neath, 11 Oct 1847 re trip to London and Paris; describing the architecture, museums, galleries and boulevardes of Paris; the layout and operation of the Jardin des Plantes including a sketched section showing cabinets and cases in its museum of mineralogy; study of insects at the British Museum to name his collection of American coleoptera; desire to take one family and study thoroughly with regard to the theory of the origin of species; Ray Society; Oken's "Elements of physiophilosophy" and variety, distribution and arrangement of species. Notes: Letter no in contents list: 17. 4 folios.First folio annotated on front in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "See near End"; sections mentioning origin of species marked or underlined in the same blue pencil. |
