WCP3562

Letter (WCP3562.3461)

[1]1

Ternate2

Septr 1858

My dear Dr Shaw3

I send you a few notes ab[ou]t New Guinea to be read at the Royal Geographical Society’s4 meeting if you think proper. Afterwards will you have any objection to send it to the Athenaeum5 for publication as it contains nothing worthy of insertion in the Society’s Transactions.

With best wishes | I remain | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Dr Norton Shaw

1
The letter is annotated in pencil in the top left-hand corner in an unknown hand: ?"Mr Crawfurd".
2
Ternate, an island in North Maluku province, Indonesia, off the largest island in the Maluccas [Maluku] group, Halmahera island, formerly known as Djailolo or Jailolo (known to ARW as Gilolo) (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2018. Ternate Island. Island, Indonesia. Encyclopaedia Britannica. <https://www.britannica.com/place/Ternate-Island> [accessed 30 December 2018]).
3
Shaw, Henry Norton ( -1868). British Royal Navy Surgeon and Diplomat; Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
4
The Royal Geographical Society, founded as the Geographical Society of London in 1830 for the promotion of the advancement of geographical science in Great Britain, later gaining its Royal Charter in 1859 (Royal Geographical Society. N.d. History of the Society. The Royal Geographical Society. <https://www.rgs.org/about/the-society/history-and-future> [accessed 10 July 2018]). ARW's paper was read at the meeting of the Society held on 27 June 1859; for a summary and notes of the ensuing discussion, see: Wallace, A. R. 1858-1859. Notes on a Voyage to New Guinea. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 3: 358-361. The paper appeared in full in: Wallace, A. R. 1860. Notes of a Voyage to New Guinea. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 30: 172-177.
5
The Athenaeum, a British weekly literary magazine in existence between 1828 and 1921 (Graham, W. J. 1930. The Weekly Journal of Belles-Lettres. 311-344. In: Graham, W. J. English Literary Periodicals. New York, NY, USA: T. Nelson & Sons. [pp. 317-320]).

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Transcribed by Knott, Peter [2012-10-01] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Watt, Helen [2019-01-29]

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