WCP1722

Telegram (WCP1722.1605)

[1]

BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED.)

Regent Circus Station.

Received the following Message the 18th day of M[ar]ch 1862

From To
Name Wallace Name Sclater1
Address Malta Address 11 Hanover Sq[ua]re London2

The two garadisi bards [paradise birds]3 have arrived here in perfect health. I wait your instructions —

1
Sclater, Philip Lutley (1829-1913). British lawyer and zoologist, specialising in ornithology; secretary to the Zoological Society of London, 1859-1902.
2
The telegram is addressed to Sclater at the premises of the Zoological Society of London (see, for example: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London. 1862. Printed for the Society and sold at their house in Hanover Square. London, UK: Longman, Green, Longmans, and Roberts).
3
Identified by ARW as the Lesser Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea papuana) in: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago, 2 vols. London, UK: Macmillan & Co. [vol. 2, p. 241-243], now known as Paradisaea minor Shaw, 1809 (BirdLife International. 2017. Paradisaea minor (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22706245A118814616. <http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22706245A118814616.en> [accessed 21 September 2018]).

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Telegram (WCP1722.1605)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Cooper, Rod [2012-10-25] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Watt, Helen [2018-09-21]

Please cite as “WCP1722,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1722