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WCP2041

Letter (WCP2041.1931)

[1]

19. 12. 80

My dear Wallace

In your "Island-Life"1 which I am studying at present, there is an awkward mistake at p. 322-3. Salmo Killinensis is not Irish, but from Loch Killin in Inverness-shire, to which locality it seems to be confined. I visited the spot myself, & examined its depth and bottom.

[2] Some of the fish in the BM. were caught on that occasion by myself and a friend who accompanied me.

I just received a letter from a correspondent on the same subject; and I think you should correct the error by a few lines to "Nature".2

I have recently put my ideas on the distribution of Fishes in print; & [3] send you a copy of the book tomorrow.

Yours very truly | A Günther3 [signature]

1
Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1880. Correction of an error in "Island Life". Nature 23 (583): 195.
3
Günther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf (formerly Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf) (1830-1914). German-born British zoologist. Keeper of the Zoology department, British Museum 1875-95.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2041.1931)]

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Transcribed by Tzelios, Christie [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP2041,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2041