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Thanking ARW for past help and reporting on his own life and thoughts over the past year including a camping trip in Llanferris, flora and fauna near River Alyn, geology of local rivers, collecting moths and mosses; cycling in Pennine hills; visit from Harold Sayler; winter clothing and exercise; L. S. Mosley's Economic Museum in Huddersfield, Mosley's involvement with Naturalist's Journal; camping and collecting insects in Delamere Forest Cheshire, names of some beetles and moths collected; trips along Welsh rivers; reading on ethnology and the tropics in anticipation of going there, lists authors including Humboldt, Bell, H. H. Higgins, Ernst Haeckel and Huxley, praises Mary Kingsley; praises practical learning and self-sufficiency; desire to learn, frustration of work restricting time available; a friend at Ladysmith, (Boer) war; secretaryship of Lancs and Cheshire entomological Society; photography of natural objects.
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Her new accommodation, asking for a plan of the house; "the pedigree Mrs Wallace" in London with a photo of her mother resembling ARW; search for illustrations for his new book, has photos from the "Challenger" (expedition), Anthropology Institute, [Royal] Geographical Society, Admiral Maclear, and his own Yosemite Valley photos, intends to get new photos of Birds of Paradise, negotiating for woodcuts from various books; has a letter in The Clarion on the Boers; Chronicle and Daily Mail on Johannesburg mining millionaires.
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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.