WCP3946

Letter (WCP3946.3886)

[1]1

Holly House, Barking, E[ssex].

Feb[ruar]y 3rd. 1872

The Secretary of the Linnean Soc[iet]y.2

Sir

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of yesterday’s date informing me of my election to the Fellowship of the Linnean Society.3 I hope to be able to attend the next meeting in order to be admitted.

I take this opportunity of expressing my sense of the honour the Council have conferred upon me by my unsolicited election, and of thanking them for the resolution subsequently passed [2] in my favour.

I remain Sir | Your obedient Serv[an]t. | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
An annotation in an unknown hand is written vertically in the upper left-hand margin of page 1: "Read in C[ounci]l | March 7/[18]72".
2
Stainton, Henry Tibbats (1822-1892). British Entomologist. Secretary of the Entomological Society of London 1850-52; Secretary of the Linnean Society 1869-74; Secretary of the Zoological Record Association 1871-86.
3
ARW was formerly admitted a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 15 February 1872. (Raby, P. 2002. Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life. London: Pimlico. p.200).

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Revision history

Transcribed by Catchpole, Caroline [2012-02-21] Transcription checked by Szentgyorgyi, Katherine [2012-05-10] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-06-10]

Please cite as “WCP3946,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3946