WCP2855

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H.M.S. VICTORIOUS,

ATLANTIC FLEET.

Tetuan

18 Oct 1906

Dear Dr Wallace

The Tarapoto journals are certainly a most serious loss. We often talked over his Andean work, but I never saw the journals. Their disappearance is most unaccountable. He once gave me an account of the so-called "Salto de Aguirre” on the Huallaga, which was probably an extract from the [2] journal up the Solineras to Tarapoto. Spruce¹ made the list of his publications for me, when I was working for the pension. The loss of these journals is most deplorable ——

yours very sincerely | Clements R Markham² [signature]

I am paying a visit here, as the Admiral's guest[.]