The difficulty
to me seems to be, how, if they once had flight, could they have lost
it, surrounded by swift and powerful carnivora against whom it must have
been the only defence?
This probably is all clear to you, but I think it is a point you might
touch upon, as I think the objection will seem a strong one to most
people.
In a day or two I go to Devonshire for a few weeks and hope to lay in a
stock of health to enable me to stick to work at my collections during
the winter. I begin to find that large collections involve a heavy
amount of manual labour which is not very agreeable.
Present my compliments to Mrs. and Miss Darwin, and believe me yours
very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
* * * * *
_1 Carlton Terrace, Southampton. August 20, 1862._
My dear Mr. Wallace,--You will not be surprised that I have been slow in
answering when I tell you that my poor boy[36] became frightfully worse
after you were at Down; and that during our journey to Bournemouth he
had a slight relapse here and my wife took the scarlet fever rather
severely.
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