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From A. R. Wallace 8 August 1862
Summary
Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.
Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3684 |
To A. R. Wallace 20 August [1862]
Summary
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3689 |
From A. R. Wallace [after 20 August 1862]
Summary
Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.
Is unwell and dreads the winter.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3694 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
