WCP4025

Letter (WCP4025.3968)

[1]

Hurstpierpoint

March. 8th. 1868

Dear Newton

I return you Mr. J[ohn] H[enry]. Gurney's1 letter, and also send you a note of my errors, for insertion in [the] next "Ibis".2

I have read (hastily) your remarks on Huxley's Classifications3 and think they are good, but — you are too complementary [2] and I cannot believe that the scheme will ever be "generally adopted". I think you have shewn4 too that it has been published rather hastily; — if it is to be considered as a new classification, — and not merely as an indication [3] of some new characters which may be available in classification.

Yours very truly │Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

A[lfred]. Newton Esq.

[4]5

1
Gurney, John Henry (1819-1890). British banker, politician and ornithologist.
2
ARW's note on errors was published in the April issue of Ibis. (Wallace, A. R. 1868. Corrections of, and Additions to, the Catalogue of the Raptorial Birds of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis. 4(14): 215-216).
3
Huxley, T. 1867. On the Classification of Birds; and on the Taxonomic Value of the Modifications of Certain of the Cranial Bones Observable in that Class. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 415-472.
4
Archaic form of shown.
5
An annotation is written in Newton's hand at the top-left hand corner of page 4, "A. R. Wallace. March 8/9 /[18]68. | Answered March 10/[18]68."

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Transcribed by Royce, Isobel [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-06-10]

Please cite as “WCP4025,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 13 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4025