WCP2361

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Science Schools

South Kensington S. W.

3rd July 1878.

Dear Mr. Wallace,

The great authority on the geology of Java is D^r. Junghuhn¹ and there is a French but, I believe, not, an English translation of his book.² Jukes³ visited the inland & you will find some notes on it in his 'Voyage of the Fly'⁴ & also I think in the Volume 'Life & Letters'⁵ published after his death. [2] Of more recent researches I cannot call to mind any recent record at present — but will make further enquiries. D^r. Drasche⁶ has gone out to spend a number of years of active geological work in the East Indies — but he has not yet, I think, got so far south as Java. Letters from him are published regularly in Tschermak's Mineralogische Mittheilungen⁷ in Vienna.

[3] I feel almost absolutely certain about the existence of a French translation of Junghuhn's book. If it is in the Library of either the Geological or Royal Society. I could perhaps borrow it & let you have the use of it at home but if — as I rather suspect — it is at the Jermyn St. Library that I have seen it, you would have to consult it there as the books are not allowed to circulate.

Yours very truly | John W. Judd⁸ [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq.