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WCP2226

Letter (WCP2226.2116)

[1]

11 Woodside, Exeter

15 June 1869

Dear Wallace,

We are bringing out a Report of our Scientific Society for last year1 & we shall be very grateful if you will allow us to print the paper which you so kindly gave us. If you can accede to this request we shall be glad to have it soon —

I am | Very truly yours | George Griffith [signature]

If you will be be at the Exeter meeting of the Association, let me know.2

1
Presumably the Report of the 38th meeting of the BAAS, of which Griffith was the Assistant General Secretary, in Norwich, August 1868. No paper by ARW found in this report. A brief abstract of a paper read in Dundee at the meeting of Section D, Biology, of the BAAS, 9 Sep. 1867, had been printed in the report of BAAS meeting 37: Wallace, A. R. 1868, On birds' nests and their plumage; or the relation between sexual differences of colour and the mode of nidification in birds. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 37: 2 [p. 97], in "Notices and Abstracts of Miscellaneous Communications to the Sections".
2
The British Association of the Advancement of Science (BAAS) meeting at Exeter was on 18 August 1869.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Kodra, Ina [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2020-08-13] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2226,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2226