This does not mean it does not exist and I am trying to get information about the journal from the Smithsonian . His next quotation is from what appears to be a textbook. Again I could not find this reference in the university library. With these two quotations, Wallace attempts to establish a general definition of the 2nd law. Let's ask his own references.
Open systems are quite different.
S. Thus, by coupling an entropy flow from the environment, the entropy of the system may decrease if the flow term compensates for the dissipation. But the character of the process involved in this overall randomizing directive is determined by the local circumstances under which the Second Law operates, rather than by the law itself. So it would seem that the Second Law's application to a given system cannot be attempted without knowledge of the system. Thaxton, et al. describe four different systems in their book, The Mystery of Life's Origin . So his own references establish a biological system to be an open system.