WCP3879

Postcard (WCP3879.3799)

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Dear Mr. Ridley1

Yours of Oct[obe]r 26th. just received. Thanks for the delayed orchids which I suppose you will send by following mail. I have just found Dubois'2 original Paper on The Pithecantropus3 which I could not hit upon when Clement Reid4 was here last and I sent it you at once. Please keep it, as it [is] of no use to me having once seen it. I wish you luck at the Caves both in human remains & orchids.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855 — 1956), Botanist.
2
Eugéne Dubois (1858 — 1940), Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He became famous for the discovery of Homo erectus.
3
Pithecanthropus erectus (now Homo erectus), which latin and greek roots mean upright ape-man.
4
Clement Reid (1853 — 1916), geologist.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP3879.3799)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Smith, Sam [2013-08-19] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-08-19]

Please cite as “WCP3879,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3879