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From:
James Henry Clark
To:
Thomas Henry Thomas
Date:
12 January 1904
Source of text:
Cardiff Central Library: CCL 4.430/22b
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Is sorry to hear ARW's friend has not obtained employment in British Guiana, as it is difficult to make a living just from collecting specimens.
Is expecting Birch to stay so that he can work for 2 days at the museum.
Offers advice in preparing for employment and on collecting in the tropics.
Returns Birch's pen which he left behind when visiting, so that he may describe his trip to Oxford to ARW.
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Discusses the importance of finding the best collecting districts to work in, based on ARW's correspondence with Bates on his time in the Malay Archipelago.
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Discusses the advantages of collecting in Brazil.
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Proposed changes to ARW's will; ARW's autobiography; electrical theory; Violet's future; William's career.
His young friend Fred Birch is going to British Guiana. Cd Thomas advise Birch on what to collect and give him a copy of the department's printed instructions - send specimens directly to the Museum for Thomas to choose what he requires - will Museum pay a fixed price per specimen - ARW asks because "we can hear of no trustworthy agents".