WCP1587

[1]¹

102, FORDWYCH ROAD,

HAMPSTEAD, N. W.

London 13/12/1904

Dear Sir,

Having been asked by your namesake the editor of the supplement to the Encl. Print., to contribute the political articles on the Malay archipelago and Dutch New Guinea, I have naturally looked up again your masterwork about these subjects, and gone into the literature, evoked here and abroad by the Wallace theories re. "division line" and the classification of men and animals and plant life in the Eastern Malay archipelago [2] Now I would be extremely obliged and feel highly honored if you could briefly intimate to me whether your views are still as expressed in the last edition² of the Malay archipelago or if they have been modified in any essential particular[.]

Latterly the Wallace "division line" has been much discussed again in Holland,

even in the States, general^y, and it has been even seriously argued therein that Dutch New Guinea is not subject to the <Regeeringrenlement> for Netherlands India lying outside our asiatic possessions, according to Wallace, and requiring a separate legislation!

Believe me | dear sir | with profound respect, yours most truly | H. Tiedeman³ [signature]