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WCP2345

Letter (WCP2345.2235)

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ARCHIV für Anthropologie.

University of Freiburg

Grandduchy of Baden

Germany.

Dear Sir,

I hope you will excuse me, when, without being in any way introduced to you I take the liberty of addressing to you this letter.

In the last number of the "Revue scientifique"1 I had the pleasure of reading the opening address "on prehistoric civilsation" which you held in the anthropological section of the british association in the meeting at Glasgow.2

As it seems to me, that the french traduction of your paper in many respects wants the necessary clearness I should be very glad to come in possession of the english original. I intend to publish in our "archiv für Anthropologie" a german translation and would therefore be very indebted for a authentic relation. If you [2] could procure me in the same time a copy of the whole of the transactions of the anthrop. section at Glasgow I should be very happÿ.

Believe me | dear Sir yours | very respectfully | Dr. Alexander Ecker3 [signature] | prof. of anatomÿ. univ. | of Freiburg | Redactor of "Archiv" für Anthropologie"

10 Decb. 1876.

1
Wallace had given an address in Glasgow on 6 September 1876 as President of Section D, Biology, of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was reprinted in French as La civilisation préhistorique in La Revue Scientifique 11 (2e s.), 2 Décembre 1876: pp. 529-536. S257.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1876. Address at the Glasgow Meeting of the British Association (6 Sept.), as President of Section D, Biology, of the BAAS; divided into parts entitled 'On Some Relations of Living Things to Their Environment'; 'Rise and Progress of Modern Views as to the Antiquity and Origin of Man'; in "Notices and Abstracts of Miscellaneous Communications to the Sections" portion of the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 46 (1876) (John Murray, London, 1877): 100-119 (first part: 101-110; second part: 110-119).
3
Ecker, Johann Alexander (1816-1887). German anthropologist and anatomist. Professor of Anatomy at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

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