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WCP2320

Letter (WCP2320.2210)

[1]

Dresden

l Natural Hist Museum

May 20th 1875

My dear Sir

It is long since I wrote to you, and I should have done so again, were it not that I always hoped to have the pleasure of seeing you in London or elsewhere, and still now I hope that this will be the case before long.

Having heard that you publish a work on the geogr. distrib. of animals1 I beg to ask you whether it will be convenient to you to publish it at the same time in January or not. In the first case I should be willing to translate your work as I translated already your Malay [2] Arch2 and your Contributions.3 It would be well, that the two editions could appear at the same time. Will you, in the case my proposition is convenient to you, make known to me your conditions, that I may try to find an editor here in January, and will you tell me something about the size and content of your work?4

With best compliments | Yours very truly | A B Meyer5 [signature]

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1
Wallace, A. R. 1876. The geographical distribution of animals; with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface. Two volumes. London: Macmillan & Co.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1869. Der Malayische Archipel. Die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels. Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute. Translated by Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Braunschweig, Westermann.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1870. Beiträge zur natürlichen Zuchtwahl; eine Reiche von Essais. Translated by Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Erlangen: Eduard Besold.
4
Wallace, A. R. (1876). Die geographische Verbreitung der Thiere: nebst einer studie über die Verwandtschaften der Lebenden und ausgestobenen Faunen in ihrer Beziehung zu den früheren Veränderungen der Erdoberfläche. Two volumes. Translated by Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Dresden: Zahn.
5
Meyer, Adolf Bernard (1840-1911). German naturalist and Director of the Royal Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum in Dresden, 1871-1901.
6
In pencil in ARW’s handwriting, “A. B Meyer”.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2320.2210)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Ghosh, Susan [2015-04-08] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-04-08] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2320,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2320