WCP4402

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

March 26^th. 1896

My dear Poulton

As to the labels I can only say as before that none are mine but the little round ones. Each purchaser no doubt put on his own labels with date of purchase &c. Some may have been put on by Stevens, as many butt[erflie]s were sent in papers & he set them out. Higgins was the successor of Stevens & took over his stock, & had all my unsold duplicates. The dates are evidently always the dates [2] of purchase. Westwood, having but a small amount for purchases, used to buy damaged specimens at a low price & patch them up. He did this very cleverly, but you must have come across some.

Borneo (Low)¹

would not be my²

collecting at all but Sir Hugh Lows from N[orth] Borneo.

S[circled] would probably be Salwatty [3] where Allen³ collected a little for me.

You will probably have two distinct series of labels ^{of my insects,} those of W.W. Saunders on almost all the Moths and miscellaneous orders, — & those of Westwood chiefly on butterflies, & the dates will I expect be always the date of purchase. The date of collecting will be shown by my Mal[ay] Archipelago.

I shall be glad to give you any further information but none of the square tickets [4]⁴ would be mine, except perhaps on my private coll[ection] of Butterflies which all went to Hewitson & thence to the B[ritish] Museum.

Lloyd Morgan has sent me a copy of Romanes volume. I think "Cope" would be rather lost in the Hope Library as it has no reference to insects, & would be more accessible to biologists generally in the Linnean or Zool[ogical Society]. I should therefore much prefer it to go to the Linnean.

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

Prof. E.B. Poulton