WCP3747

Letter (WCP3747.3655)

[1]

Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill,

Croydon.

July 20th. 1878

Dear Flower1

I merely write to give you my address, in order that you may be able to send me the paper on Crania &c. you were so good as to promise me.

I see in the last Anthrop. Journal a valuable paper on the "Motu" of New Guinea, with such statements as p. 672. "The Motu belong to the great Malayo Polynesian family"— and p. 473. "The hair is of a peculiarly frizzly nature"—

Yours faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Prof. Flower

[2] [A sketch of a whale]

Flower, William Henry (1831-1899). British comparative anatomist and surgeon and a leading authority on mammals, and especially on the primate brain.

Please cite as “WCP3747,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3747