| Description | Ms notes in Alfred Russel 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 Alfred Russel 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 Alfred Russel 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'.
Subject: Colouration |