WCP3881

Postcard (WCP3881.3801)

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Many thanks for the Cirrhopetalum medusae which arrived in very fair condition & which I think will grow, though several of the leaves hade dropped. I hope you are having some success at the Caves. The bat-catching snake is very interesting as it seems to be a special adaption to cave life. Extinct animals, or missing links, is what we are all looking for.

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

Parkstone, Dorset.

July 18th. 1897

Ridley, Henry Nicholas (1855-1956). British economic botanist. Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore.

Please cite as “WCP3881,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3881