WCP2504

[1]¹

TELEPHONE

9208-9 GERRAND.

SAVILE CLUB,

107, PICCADILLIY. W.

8 April. 1912.

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for your kind letter of April 3rd.² I am very glad that you will allow me to dedicate my book³ to you.

I think it will interest you to know that I am shortly about to take to Dutch New Guinea another [2] expedition, of which the primary object is to make collections of the fauna and flora of that wonderful island. A foolish paragraph appeared in the paper to the effect that my object was first of all to climb the mountain – but my object is to reach a high point in the mountain, preferably about 6000 ft altitude, and then to make collections of animals and plants. I hope also to reach the snow line, as I am [3] particularly interested in Alpine plants.

I expect to leave England about the middle of May and I propose to enter the country by the Utakwa River about 60 miles to the East of the point where we were on the last expedition, and I hope that with a better knowledge of the local condition we shall be able to reach the high ground, when the expedition will be of extreme interest.

Believe me | Yours very truly | A. F. R. Wollaston.⁴ [signature]