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Ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, on colour sense in and colours of animals, comprising: 1. Note headed "Colour sense (Mr Henry T Fincke [sic])". 2. Ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Chapter IX ", listing page references with comments, beginning " p. 149 Butts. [butterflies?] & Humming Birds - most brilliant" . Notes: Both in very small writing on one side of paper only, sheets octavo size. Possibly notes for "Colour in Nature [review by A. R. Wallace of The Colour Sense, Its Origin and Development; An Essay in Comparative Psychology by Grant Allen, 1879]". Nature 19: 501-505 (3 April 1879: no. 492). (Smith: S304). Henry T Finck was the author of a letter to the Editor in the same volume, p. 340 (Feb 13, 1879) dated Berlin, 8 Feb, headlined "Intellect in Brutes". |
