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WCP3879

Postcard (WCP3879.3799)

[1]

[26 November 1896]1

Dear Mr. Ridley2

Yours of Octr 26th. just received.3 Thanks for the delayed orchids which I suppose you will send by following mail. I have just found Dubois'4 original Paper5 on the Pithecantropus which I could not hit upon when Clement Reid6 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]

[2]

H. N. Ridley Esq, F.L.S.

Director Gardens & Forests

Singapore7

1
Date stamped on postcard out of Parkstone.
2
Ridley, Henry Nicholas (1855-1956). British economic botanist. Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore.
3
The letter has not been found.
4
Dubois, Eugéne (1858-1940). Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. Discoverer of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or "Java Man".
5
Dubois, Eugéne. 1896. On Pithecanthropus erectus. Journal of the anthropological institute, vol. 25, pp. 240-255.
6
Reid, Clement (1853-1916). British geologist and paleobotanist.
7
Round stamp on postcard, “PENANG TO SINGAPORE 20 DE 96”.

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] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3879,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3879