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WCP4440

Letter (WCP4440.4730)

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

Decr. 2nd. 1908

My dear Poulton1

Many thanks for receiving & forwarding the Copley Medals2 which duly arrived this morning.

The older medals are all much finer works of art than the newer ones, — and the Copley is very fine though I expected to see old Copley’s head on it.

I do not think I shall want any slides for mimicry as I have 5.. 6 diagrams, and I shall only be able to refer [2] to mimicry incidentally, if at all. But if you happen to have any large drawings or enlarged photos, of mimickry — other than Lepidoptera I should be glad of them; but it is not of much importance.

To think of going to America delivering lectures & back in a month!

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. It is very nice having the medals in gold & silver!

1
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943). British entomologist. Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College.
2
In 1908 Wallace was awarded the Royal honour of the Order of Merit, the Royal Society's Copley Medal "for outstanding achievement in any branch of science" and the Linnean Society of London's first Darwin-Wallace Medal for "major advances in evolutionary biology".

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-18] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Envelope (WCP4440.4731)

Envelope addressed to "Prof. E. B. Poulton F.R.S., Wykeham House, Oxford", with stamp, postmarked "BROADSTONE | B | DE 2 | 08". Note on front of envelope in Poulton's hand: "Dec. 2. 1908"; postmark on back. [Envelope (WCP4440.4731)]

Please cite as “WCP4440,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4440