WCP2028

Letter (WCP2028.1918)

[1]

Jardine Hall

[Lockerbie, Dumfiesshire]

10th. Dec[embe]r 1863.

Dear Sir,

I have your note of [the] 9th 1 — 250 copies of Rules2 were printed — about the [sic] Half have now been distributed by post to Different Naturalists at home and abroad Scientific societies &c — I have a list of all to whom they have been sent and I am anxious to keep a list which I [2] submit to [the] Committee[.] I will be obliged therefore if you would keep [for] me the names of the persons to whom you send the Ten copies sent to you by this post — The copies on thin paper are for Foreign. — The better way for members of Committee would be to send me a list of persons to whom they wish [3] copies sent. It would save them postage, would prevent duplicate copies being sent and enable me to lay before [the] committee [a] list of all [persons] — I am daily sending out copies both to applicants [and] to to [sic] persons not thought of at first & the 250 will soon be exhausted[.] If so & there seems need I would print another 250.

We printed the rules [4] entire in the Edin[burgh] Phil[osophical]. Journal3 — If the Natural History review4 would do to it would be evidently [?] of greater circulation — I propose to be in London & to meet or call together as many of the Committee as possible in Spring but it would be of little use yet — Any suggestions will be attended to[.]

believe me sincerely | Wm Jardine [signature]

1
See ARW letter to William Jardine on 9 December 1863 (WCP3535.3428).
2
William Jardine and his daughter, Catherine Dorcas Maule Jardine, published a revised version of the Rules of Zoological Nomenclature originally drafted by Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1842. See Strickland, H. E. 1863. Rules for Zoological Nomenclature Authorised by Section D of British Association at Manchester, 1842. Edinburgh: Neill.
3
Strickland, H. E. 1863. Proposed Reform of Zoological Nomenclature. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Vol. 18. (July/October 1863). 260-283.
4
The Natural History Review was a quarterly journal on the biological sciences founded in 1854 by faculty members of Dublin University and edited by Edward Perceval Wright. In 1860 Thomas Henry Huxely became the general editor and appointed co-editors who championed Darwinism, such as William Benjamin Carpenter and George Busk. The exclusively Irish focus of the early incarnation of the review restricted its a circulation to about a hundred subscribers in Ireland and significantly fewer in Britain. Under Huxley the circulation of the review increased to 1000 but despite the ostensibly more broad agenda, the Natural History Review became increasingly focused on highly specialist fields and partisan causes. In 1865 the Natural History Review folded. (Dawson, G. 2009. Natural History Review (1854-1865). In: Brake, L. & Demoor, M. (Eds). The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism In Great Britain and Ireland. Ghent: Academic Press.)

Editorial information

Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP2028.1918)]

For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon

Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2015-05-07] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP2028,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2028