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WCP4209

Letter (WCP4209.4264)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Octr. 26th.1890

Dear Sir1

If you have any time for miscellaneous reading this winter would you be able to read over my "Island Life"2 making notes as to omissions or errors of fact? I have to prepare a new & cheap edition of the book & should like to bring its facts & arguments up to date so far as I can without very large additions. Your reading and knowledge of Nat. Hist. are so extensive that your notes [2] would be of great use to me.

If you can find time to do this & have not got the book I will instruct my publishers to send you a copy.

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

Theo. D. A. Cockerell Esq.

1
Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison (1866-1948). Brother of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. British-born American zoologist, taxonomist, and museum curator. ARW referred him as the 'Slugophilite'.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.

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Transcription (WCP4209.5305)

[1]1

Parkstone, Dorset,

Oct. 26th. 1890.

Dear Sir:

If you have any time for miscellaneous reading this winter would you be able to read over my "Island Life" making notes as to omissions or errors of fact? I have to prepare a new and cheap edition of the book and should like to bring its facts and arguments up-to-date as far as I can without very large additions. Your reading and knowledge of Natural History are so extensive that your notes would be of great use to me. If you can find time to do this and have not got the book I will instruct my publishers to send you a copy.

1
In pencil in unknown handwriting, “[T.D.A. Cockerell]”.

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Status: Draft transcription [Transcription (WCP4209.5305)]

For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon

Revision history

Transcribed by Siewert, Betsy [2019-12-17] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4209,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4209