WCP1746

Letter (WCP1746.1630)

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5, Westbourne Grove Terrace, W.

Friday morning

My dear Dr. Sclater1

I have not left my room since I was at the Meeting last Tuesday2 week or should have seen you before this. I hope I shall be well enough to come next Tuesday. Do you know any one who has skins of Paradiseas?3 I should like to borrow Epim[achus]. magnus,4 Astrap[ia]. nigra,5 P[aradisea]. sexsetacea6 & P[aradisea]. superba7 to complete [2] the set I think of exhibiting.

I should like much to see the Banjirmassing8 [sic?] bird & will call as soon as I can get out.

I shall hope to show you my novelties next week.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P. L. Sclater Esq.

1
Sclater, Philip Lutley (1829-1913). British lawyer, zoologist and ornithologist, secretary to the Zoological Society of London.
2
Possibly this refers to the regular meetings of either the British Ornithologists' Union or the Zoological Society of London, of which Sclater and ARW were both members.
3
Now Paradisaeidae, the family of birds that includes birds of paradise.
4
The Long-tailed bird of paradise or Superb plume-bird.
5
The Arfak astrapia, a species of bird of paradise.
6
The western or Arfak parotia (Parotia sefilata), a species of bird of paradise.
7
The greater lophorina or greater superb bird of paradise (Lophorina superba).
8
Banjarmasin, an Indonesian city on the southern end of the island of Borneo.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Knott, Peter [2012-02-16] Transcription checked by Hill, Jenny [2012-04-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Barton, Michael [2019-02-25]

Please cite as “WCP1746,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1746