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Ms copy in ink an unknown hand headed "From The Reader, 16 April 1864 | Mr Wallace on the Phenomena of Variation and Geographical Distribution…" with a footnote " Abstract of a paper read before the Linnean Society, March 17th, 1864", pencilled calculations in A. R. Wallace's? hand of page and word numbers with ref to "my Nat. Select." on back of last page, also annotated in ink on the back of the last page in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Reader Article on Malayan papilionidae" and in pencil in another? Same? Hand "Too long for book - abstract given in Chap. XXIII"; 23 numbered folios c A4 size written on one side only. Notes: Smith S 96: Reader 3: 491b-493b (16 April 1864: no. 68). A version was published in A. R. Wallace's monograph "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection", 1870 (Smith, Bibliography, S96). See Smith for details of other versions. |
