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MS notes in an envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand in pencil "A2" and in ink "Lecture Notes | Colours of Animals | Darwen, Newcastle, Altrincham Bowdon 1888" and in pencil "(not include Nunnery)", containing 24 folios of ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand on the cause and uses of colouration in animals, with references to numbered lantern slides. There appear to be notes for two lectures. The first 11 folios deal mainly or solely with protective colouration and are numbered sequentially from 2-13, including a folio numbered "8 & 9". In several cases (earlier?) numbers have been crossed out and replaced. The next 13 folios consist of a page titled "Lecture III | Warning Colours & Mimicry" followed by pages numbered sequentially 2 to 13. Place: England Notes removed from envelope in order to relax the crease along the fold, both notes and envelope put into an acid-free paper folder. Envelope torn and foxed, pages foxed. |
