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WCP4226

Letter (WCP4226.4291)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset

June 4th. 1891

My dear Mr. Cockerell1

I have ordered Browning to send you a pocket Aneroid, which I beg you to accept as a small recognition of the valuable assistance you have given me in "Island Life ".2 I hope it may be useful to you in your wanderings among the Jamaican & other mountains [2] and enable you to record the vertical distribution of snails & slugs in the West Indies.

Hoping to see you & your wife3 here or at Corfe (or Swanage).

Believe me | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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. 1895. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. Second and revised edition. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
3
Cockerell (née Fenn) Annie Sarah (1857-1893). Writer. First wife of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4226.4291)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Bevan, Deniz [2012-11-29] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4226,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4226