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From:
E. P. Plowman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 November 1899
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 f. 44
Summary:
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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ARW thanks CR for the offer of loan of periodicals with articles on erosion. James Geikie has sent a brief reply to Aeppli. Percy Kendall has promised photographs illustrating glacial phenomena.
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Asks for information re. number of species of birds now known for New Guinea incl. islands close to it - Waigiou, Sahratty + Aru islands, separating the land and the water birds; just a rough estimate; is comparing the ornithological richness of New Guinea with other larger islands and countries. Also numbers for Papuan Islands as a whole, say from Mysol to New Britain.