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Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William. from Baltimore, Maryland, Dec (1886) re visit to Prof Morse at Salem, Morse's Japanese artefacts and books, his 15 year old son's weekly natural history club meetings and collections of flints, shells and insects; visit to Prof Marsh at Newhaven Connecticut, his fossil collection including great animal skulls and skeletons; explosion of rotten ostrich egg in Marsh's museum (Peabody Museum, Yale); A. R. Wallace's lecture to ladies' college at Poughkeepsie; route of travel to Baltimore via New York. Place: Japan USA |
