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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
15 October 1854
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/33
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/33
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 52-53]
- Hooker, W. J. (1855). Extracts of a letter From Mr. Wallace [dated 10 Oct. 1854, Singapore]. Journal of Botany: 7(7): 200-209
Summary:
Sailing for Sarawak next day; arranging and cataloguing collection of 6,000 specimens - birds, insects and shells; impossibility of collecting plants for William Hooker; pleasure at quotation by Latham; any news of Sebastopol; wanting copies of Punch; expedition to Mount Ophir.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project