WCP3391

Letter (WCP3391.3359)

[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne

Aug.[ust] 13th. 1904

Mess.[er]s Macmillan & Co.1

Dear Sirs

Dr. A.B. Meyer2, head of the Zooll. & Anthropoll Museum of Dresden3 writes to me for 2 or 3 copies of the 20 plates of Animals illustrating my "Geog. Dist. of Animals"4, 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 Illustrations figures used in my "Studies", 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 cash (if any) to my account.

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

1
Macmillan & Co. (Now Macmillan Publishers Ltd.) is a publishing group founded in 1843 in London. The group published Wallace's "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection", "Tropical Nature, and Other Essays", and "Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of Its Applications".
2
Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840 — 1911) Zoologist and ethnologist
3
The Zoological and Anthropological Museum of Dresden, founded in 1875, is now called the Museum for Ethnology.
4
"The Geographical Distribution of Animals" was published in 1876 by Harper and Brothers.

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Transcribed by Pearson, Keon [2013-07-19] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-07-19]

Please cite as “WCP3391,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3391