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WCP2284

Letter (WCP2284.2174)

[1]1

218 Euston Road

Gower Street.

[September - October 1872]2

Sir

It was a long wish of mine to see you once and ask your advice in a projected expedition to Borneo. The expedition is projected by me as a geologist, and my brother,2 who is a professor of Zoology in Russia, as zoologist. The project is not quite ripe yet, but wishing to profit by a stay I make in London. I shall be extremely happy if you allow me to call upon you any time you [2] are not better engaged. I enclose a note from Mr. Dallas,3,4 and having seen Mr. Darwin5 at Down, the other Sunday,6 he fully allowed me to use his name as an introduction to you.

Truly yours | W. Kowalevsky7 [signature]

[3] Kowalevsky2

1
In pencil in unknown handwriting, “July 1872”.
2
Kovalevsky, Alexander Onufrievich (1840-1901). Russian embryologist; Professor of histology, St. Petersburg 1890-94. Brother of Vladimir Kovalevsky.
3
Dallas, William Sweetland (1824-1890). British entomologist.
4

See letter from Dallas to ARW making the introduction of Kovalevsky.

https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2285

5
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).
6
See note 2.
7
Kovalevsky, Vladimir Onufrievich (W. Kowalevsky) (1842-1883). Russian palaeontologist known for his work on the evolution of the horse.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2284.2174)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Anonymous [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2284,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2284