Summary

Sending copy of Pall Mall Magazine containing interview with and photos of ARW; description of Diplodocus skeleton at the Natural History Museum, donated by Carnegie; Birds of Paradise; meeting at NHM with Jordan and Rothschild who had brought some New Guinea butterflies for him to see, invitation from Rothschild to spend a week at Tring, may go in the summer; emergence of three small longicorn beetles from a clump of orchids sent from Buenos Ayres by John Hall, two caught and identified by British Museum as a species of Ibidion not in its collection; capture of a large orange and brown moth or butterfly which Rothschild thinks a Castnia, in the orchid house and a chrysalis on same orchid as the one harbouring the longicorns, has sent moth and chrysalis to Prof Poulton for the Oxford collection, amazement that the same plant should produce both a rare moth and beetle after a year in a greenhouse.

Letter details

Record number

WCP199

Item number

199

6489

From

Wallace, Alfred Russel

To

Wallace, William Greenell [ARW's son]

Date

23 February 1909

Sent from

Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne, Dorset, England

Sent to

[none given]

Source of text

Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/202 [Letter (WCP199.199)]

Wallace, W. G. & Wallace, V. (1916). Part IV. Home Life. 103-138. In: Marchant, J. (Ed.). Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 129-130] [Published letter (WCP199.6489)]

Physical description

Letter, 8 pp. of contemporary text [Letter (WCP199.199)]

Printed [Published letter (WCP199.6489)]

Hand

Handwritten in the author’s hand and signed by author [Letter (WCP199.199)]

Language

English

English