WCP2437

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Magdalene College,

Cambridge.

16 June 1893

My dear Wallace,

I thank you for your note which is very pleasant to read — I only hope that now 30 years (or more) of friendly intercourse has not given you an unconscious bias. I am particularly glad of what you say of Swainson's¹ figures, and only wish I could have got the <whole?> of them, but unfortunately many of the blocks, & among them some of the more important, were not forthcoming.

A good book on the <Areas?> of Birds would indeed be an excellent [2] thing but I hardly <see?> the man to do it , unless it were young Wiglesworth²who made that list of Polynesian Birds,³ & is no fool. The book that A. H. Evans⁴ of this place is doing for the series that Macmillans are to bring out will in some degree supply the want, but will not have such figures as are really needed.⁵

Trusting that you are well I remain |yours very Truly | Alfred Newton [signature]⁶