| Ref No | WP/7/28 |
| Alt Ref No | WP7/28 |
| Title | Ms copy headed 'From The Reader, 16 April 1864 Mr Wallace on the Phenomena of Variation and Geographical Distribution…' |
| Description | 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 Alfred Russel 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 Alfred Russel Wallace's or William Greenell Wallace's hand] 'Reader Article on Malayan papilionidae' and in pencil [in another 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 Alfred Russel Wallace's monograph 'Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection', 1870 (Smith, Bibliography, S96). See Smith for details of other versions.
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| Date | 16 Apr 1864 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Held By | NHM General Library |
| Extent | 1 Ms |
| Level | File |
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