WCP2025

Letter (WCP2025.1915)

[1]1

(1896.)

It is requested that any further communication on this subject may be addressed to

The Under Secretary of State for India,2

India Office,

London, S.W.

India Office, S.W.

27th February 1863.

Sir,

I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council,3 to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 12th Instant4, requesting the gift of some of the duplicate specimens of unmounted bird-skins contained in the India Museum, and to acquaint you in reply, that on putting yourself into communication with Dr. Forbes Watson5, at the India Museum, Fife House,6 you will be furnished with such duplicates as can be spared.

I am, Sir, | Your obedient servant, | T Baring [signature]

A.R. Wallace Esq.

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1
An annotation written diagonally in the lower left-hand margin of page 1 adds 'I[ndia].M[useum]'.
2
Baring, Thomas George (1826-1904). First Earl of Northbrook. British politician, Under-Secretary of State for the India Office 1859-61 and 1861-4, Viceroy of India 1872-76.
3
Wood, Charles (1800-1885). First Viscount Halifax. British Whig politician and Secretary of State for India 1859-1866.
4
The day of the current month.
5
Watson, John Forbes (1827-1892). Scottish physician and author on India. Director of the India Museum in London 1858-1879.
6
The India Museum of London was established in 1801 as the Oriental Repository in East India House in Leadenhall Street, London and was maintained by the East India Company until 1858. In 1861 the India Museum temporarily relocated to Fife House at Whitehall until 1868 when the India Office terminated its occupancy. The museum subsequently reopened at the India Office in 1869 and was relocated again in 1875 at rooms rented from the South Kesington Museum. In 1879 the India Museum was dissolved and its collection was dispersed. (Desmond R. 1982. The India Musuem 1801-1879. London: HMSO.)
7
A vertical pencil annotation in the upper left-hand margin of page 2 adds 'Sec[retary]. State of India. | Birds Skins | Baring'.

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Transcribed by Shapland, Lesley [2012-10-26] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP2025,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2025