Broadstone, Wimborne
August 10th 1907
My dear Poulton
I have just come across the enclosed scrap of your notes about localities1, which seems to have been separated from the other piece, & now suddenly fell out of a book, as if from the skies!
I have put on it the names of Collectors — & dates roughly. Only Tondano & Tidore were collected by self.
The only news from Birch yet is, that they sailed from Bahia by a coasting steamer from Caravelhos [2] whence there is a railroad up into a little known part of Minas Geraes — which runs a train twice a week! Its destination is Philadelphia — otherwise Theophilo Ottoni — but they may stay on the way if they see a good-looking Collecting ground.
Shall hear probably in a few days (or weeks) where they are settled.
Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4432.4716)]
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THESE HE COULD NOT FIND
1 Penang
2 Mysol Isl. (N. Guinea) Salwatty (1861)
Jan[uar]y to June 1860 C Allen
Gagui Flores (1862)
Sula Isl (C. Allen)
3 Oct 58/
Tidore self
N. CelebesTondans myself July 1859
Morty Isl (Charles Allen)
[two words crossed out]
Penang — not coll[ecte]d by me — given me by and [sic] Englishman who made good collections there on main land name forgotten.
All (2) collected by my assistant Charles Allen in 1860 — to 1862. also morty is..
over
[2]1
Gagie Is. (self) Oct 1860. See map. Mal. Arch. P.410
[3]Banda Dec 1857 May 1859 April 1861
(2 ~ 3 days each time)
Amboyna Dec 1857 (a month) / Oct 1859 (a month) \ Dec. 20 to 20th Feb 1860
Ternate Jan 8th1858 (2 months), Ternate to Kaioa & Batchian Oct 9th1858 (5 days)
Gilolo March (2 weeks?) + Sep 1858 (2 weeks?)
Batchian Oct. 21st 1858 to April 12th 1859.
Ceram, Goram, Matabello Isl[and]s Ceram (april 8 to May 27. 1860)
[(]Ceram Oct 30th 1859 to end of year) / (Feb. to June 1860 (on voyage))
Bouru May 4th — June to end 1861
Aru Islands December 1856 Jan 8 to July 2 1857June — March 1857 May — June 1867
Ké Islands Jan 1 — 6 1857
N. Guinea Dorey Mar — July 1858 April 11 — to 29th 1858
Waigiou July 4 — to Sep. 29 1860
Kaisa Is. — Oct 15-19 (1858) Oct. 26-31 — 1860
Waigiou — Ternate Sep 2[?]9 — Nov 5 1860
THESE FOR VERIFICATION1
THESE ALSO FOR VERIFICATION
Singapore 1854 — 2 months 1856 — 3 months
Malacca, Mt Ophir
July to Sep 1854.
Borneo Nov 11854 to Jan[?] 25 1856
Java, July 18 — Oct 31. 1861
Sumatra Nov. 8 1861 — Jan 1862 3 months
Bali, Lombok. Jun 18 — Aug 30. 1856
2 days
Timor, Coupang 1 day 1857 — May 2 weeks. May1859
Delli 1861
Jan.12 — to April 20.
Macassar, Sep — Nov 1856
3 months.
Macassar July — Nov 1857
4 months.
Menado, June — Sep 1859
June 10 — 4 months
Status: Draft transcription [Enclosure (WCP4432.7688)]
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Envelope addressed to "Prof. E. B. Poulton F.R.S., Wykeham House, Banbury Road, Oxford", redirected to "St Helen's, Ryde, Isle of Wight", with stamp, postmarked "BROADSTONE | A | AU 10 | 07". Note on front of envelope in Poulton's hand: "Aug 10 1907"; additional postmark on front and two postmarks on back. [Envelope (WCP4432.4717)]
Please cite as “WCP4432,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4432