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WCP3328

Letter (WCP3328.3296)

[1]

BODELIAN LIBRARY

Oxford

April 5. 1913

Dear Sir,

I hear from Professor Poulton1 that you are kind enough to offer to give us the Japanese translation of two of your recent works.2,3 I assure you that we shall be very glad to receive them, to add the fifty or more entries in our Catalogue under your name.

[2] I am | Very truly yours | F. Madan4 [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq.

[3]5

1
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943). British entomologist. Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College.
2
Wallace, A. R; 中島茂一 (Shigekazu Nakajima).1911. [The wonderful century; its successes and its failures] 驚くべき世紀. 博文館: Keio University.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1913. [The World of Life] 生物の世界. Edited by the Greater Japan Civilization Association. 東京: 大日本文明協會大正.
4
Madan, Falconer (1851-1935). Librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
5
In ARW’s handwriting, "Madan".

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