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WCP3391

Letter (WCP3391.3359)

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Aug. 13th. 1904

Messrs. Macmillan & Co.1

Dear Sirs

Dr. A.B. Meyer,2 head of the Zooll. & Anthropoll. Museum of Dresden writes to me for 2 or 3 copies of the 20 plates of Animals illustrating my "Geog. Dist. of Animals",3 which he wishes to have coloured and to exhibit in the Museum (with reference to the Book.) side by side with specimens he has had mounted to illustrate [2] the same subject.

As Dr. Meyer has supplied me with some of the figures Illustrations used in my "Studies",4 and as the exhibition of the plates will be an Advertisement of the book, I should wish him to have them, if you have any in stock that you can supply.

Please charge the cost (if any) to my account.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature].

1
Macmillan, Frederick Orridge (1851-1936). Eldest son of Daniel Macmillan, a founding partner in the bookselling and publishing firm of Macmillan & Co.
2
Meyer, Adolf Bernard (1840-1911). German naturalist and Director of the Royal Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum in Dresden, 1871-1905.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1876. The geographical distribution of animals; with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface. London: Macmillan & Co. Two volumes.
4
Wallace, A. R. 1900. Studies scientific and social. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. And New York: The Macmillan Co. Two volumes.

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Transcribed by Pearson, Keon [2013-07-19] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-07-19] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3391,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3391