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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
28 January 1859
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1859). [Extracts from a letter from Alfred R. Wallace to Samuel Stevens dated 28 Jan. 1859, Batchian; communicated by Stevens to the ESL meeting of 6 June 1859]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London : 1858-1859 : 70
Summary:
An account of ARW’s visceral reaction to capturing a new Ornithoptera, “the finest butterfly in the world”, and explains that he is remaining at Batchian, Moluccas with the intention of collecting additional Paradisea specimens.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project