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WCP2535

Letter (WCP2535.2425)

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7, CARLOS PLACE,

W.

Decr: 16.

Dear Mr. Wallace,

I am sure you will be interested to know that I have just seen Mr. Druce.2 who has had the Lepidoptera your young friend Birch3 has sent from Trinidad & he says that they are extremely well collected4 and that he is very well pleased [2] with them. I hear that there is already a collector (Entomological) in the interior of British Guiana — in the neighbourhood of Roraima, and that Mr. Schaus5 has also just returned from Guiana with a very large collection, so I do not think Birch would do better than the mountains [3] in the interior of northern Brazil — Of course there is still plenty to be done on the tributaries of the upper Amazon but let him try Brazil first.

Very truly yrs | F. D. Godman.6 [signature]

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1
In ARW’s handwriting, “Brazil Upp Amazon”.
2
Druce, Herbert (1846-1913). British entomologist.
3
Birch, Frederick ("Fred") (1876-1952). British naturalist and natural history collector. Honorary Secretary of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society.
4
All the underlines in this letter was made in blue pencil by ARW.
5
Schaus, William (1858-1942). American entomologist.
6
Godman, Frederick DuCane (1834-1919). British ornithologist, entomologist and traveller.
7
. In ARW’s handwriting, “F D Godman”.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2535.2425)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Ball, Amy [2015-03-24] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-03-24] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2535,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2535