WCP2835

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Königliches Zoologisches und Anthropologisch- Ethnographisches Museum

Dresden, A. Zwinger

Aug. 9 1904

A R Wallace Esq

Parkstone

Dear Dr Wallace,

Have you perhaps coloured copies of the 20 plates in your "geographical distribution (1876)³ which you could lend me or let me have for the purpose to exhibit them in the Dresden Museum? I have recently installed famislie presentations of New Zealand, Australia, Celebes, Borneo, Africa, Madagascar, South America, Europe, Desert & Arctic animals & wish to put side by side your plates in colour. You are aware that Museums are rapidly backwards with such exhibits. I know only of the entirely antiquated in Cambridge Mass, which you yourself described years ago, and of a little bit of in the Dublin Museum. [2] If you have not to spare what I want you could perhaps, through the Publishers procure me 2 or 3 copies of the 20 plates that I may have the hand colouring done there. But I presume you have the originals of the artist.

I shall have printed your name with title of book on each of the plates. Not a single work on Geographical Distribution written since those 28 years can match yours from far!

I would be extremely obliged to you if you could kindly help me. My arrangements were so to say entirely guided by your book and "Island Life".⁴

Hoping that you are in satisfactory health I remain

yours sincerely | A. B. Meyer⁵ [signature]

PS I first see that of I possess letters from you of the year 1867⁶