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WCP2153

Letter (WCP2153.2043)

[1]

British Museum

9. 9. [18]79

Dear Mr Wallace

The Fresh or other fishes of the British Isles which I consider to be distinct (species or well-marked varieties from those of the Continent are1

Salmo brachypoma2
gallivensis3
orcadensis4
ferox5
stomachicus6
nicripinnis7
Levenensis8
Killinensis9
perisii10

[2] Charrs of Ireland a separate sample. Gunther.

Salmo willughbii11
colii12
grayi13
Coregonus clupeoides14
vandensius15
pollan16

I cannot name these nearest allies of the several species on the Continent; each none of them being more allied to any particular continental species than to other conferers[?]17.

Observe that all these fishes belong to the Family Salmonidae, & that these genera do not appear to date farther back than the [3] glacial period.

Believe me | Yours very truly | A Günther [signature]18

1
Each species has been annotated in ink with further details and in pencil with references to journal pages (many unclear, but confirmed by comparison with 'Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, Index 1861-1870' (London, 1872)) by ?Wallace as given in the corresponding endnotes below.
2
'Short handed salmon'; 'Firth of Forth and Ouse.'; 'Tweed'; 'P. Z. S. (Proceedings of the Zoological Society), 1865, 198'.
3
'Galway (Sea-trout)'; '1865, 198'.
4
'Loch Stennis Trout'; 'Lakes of Orkneys' [sic]; '1865, 198'.
5
'G[rea]t Lake Trout Large Lakes of of Scotland, Westmorland & Wales — (Llanb[MS illeg.])'; '1865, 198'.
6
'Gillaroo trout'; Ireland (many lakes)'; '1865, 198'.
7
'Black finned trout'; 'Llyn Gadr.Cuder [sic] Idris etc. M[oun]t[ain][?] lochs of Wales & Scotland'; '1865, 198; 1870, 43-45'.
8
'Loch Leven trout.'; 'Loch Leven, Loch Lomond Windermere'; '1865, 198'.
9
'Loch Killin Charr'; 'Loch Killin — [2 words illeg. and crossed out] near L[och].[?] Corer[?] Ireland' 'stet'; '1865, 699'.
10
'Welsh Charr'; 'Llanberris Lakes'; '1865, 198'.
11
'Windermere Charr'; L[ake]. Windermere and oth[er][?] N[orth]. of Eng[land]. Lakes; L[ake]. Bruiach (N[orth] Sc[o]t[land]'; 1862, 43-46; 1863, 8-16'.
12
'Cole's Charr'; 'L[och]. Eske & L[och]. Du[?] — (Ireland)'; 1863, 7-16; 1865, 198'.
13
'Grays Charr'; 'L[och]. Melvin — (Ireland)'; 1861, 391; 1862[?], 43-51'.
14
'Gwyniad'; 'Loch Lomond, Ulleswater, Haweswater, Bala Lake'.
15
'The Vendace'; 'Loch Maben, Dumfriesshire'.
16
'The Pollan'; 'Lough Neagh, Lough Earne'.
17
A marginal note by ?Wallace appears here: 'Nature July. 24th 1879'.
18

Further notes by ?Wallace appear after the author's signature: 'continental Salmo cambricus in the Severn — L[ake]. Llanberis: = S[almo]. Perisii'; 'S[almo]. alpinus — L[och].[?] Hoy (Orkneys) & Lapland — nearly[?] same', and separated by a double line:

'Rev[eren]d. W. Houghton's "History of British Fresh Water fishes"

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Transcribed by Bisasor, Jhanelle [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP2153,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2153