WCP2284

[1]

218 Euston Road

<Gower Street.[?]>

(July 1872)¹

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, 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, and having seen Mr. Darwin at Down, the other Sunday, he fully allowed me to use his name as an introduction to you.

Truly yours | W. Kowalevsky [signature]

[3] Kowalevsky²