WCP2503

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Telephone 9208 9 Gerrard.

Savile Club,

107 Piccadilly, W.

2 April. 1912.

Sir,

The British Ornithologists' Union recently celebrated its Jubilee by sending a scientific expedition to Dutch New Guinea, and the Committee of the expedition fund invited me to write the official account of the expedition, of which I was a member. The account is now very nearly finished and will shortly be published in a book by Mssrs Smith. [1 word illeg.] & Co.

My reason for writing now to you is [2] to ask you if you will do me the honour of allowing me to inscribe this book to you as an Honorary Member of the B[ritish]. O[rni]th[ologists]. and as the pioneer of all the naturalists in New Guinea, to whom we all owe so great a debt.

Hoping you will be so kind as to agree to my suggestion

I remain | yours very truly | Alexander F. R. Wollaston³ [signature].