WCP4014

Letter (WCP4014.3957)

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9, St Mark's Crescent,

Regent's Park.

Novr 16th. 18651

Dear Newton

I meant to give you the accompanying paper2 (containing a Memoir of Bernstein3 in German) on Tuesday evening4. It is probably interesting if you can get it translated, should be inserted in the "Ibis5."

Very truly yours│ Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

A[lfred]. Newton Esq. { We wanted you at the Z'o[ological]6 the other night.

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1
The stationery has a pre-printed line for the date.
2
Not identified.
3
Bernstein, Heinrich Agathon (1828-1865). German naturalist who collected specimens in Indonesia for the Leiden Museum.
4
ARW refers to the Zoological Society of London meeting held on 14 November 1865. See 1865. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London [p. 617]
5
The Ibis is an ornithological journal published by the British Ornithologists' Union since 1859. See Ibis. 2020. IBIS - International journal of ornithology. Ibis <http://www.ibis.ac.uk/> [accessed 24 August 2020]. The only mention of Heinrich Agathon Bernstein's death in the Ibis was in 1866 "the late Dr. Bernstein (whose premature death is so much to be regretted)" in Newton, A. (Ed.) 1866. Recent Ornithological publications, 3. Dutch. The Ibis, (series 2) 2: [p. 211].
6
See endnote 4 above.
7
An ink annotation in the upper, left margin on an otherwise blank page reads "A.R. Wallace, London. Nov. 16/18 /65." "Answered Nov. 19/65."

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Transcribed by Royce, Isobel [2012-11-19] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-08-31]

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