Old Orchard,
Broadstone,
Wimborne.
Decr. 2nd 1908
My dear Poulton
Many thanks for receiving & forwarding the Copley Medals 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 photo[graph]s, of mimickry [sic] — 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!
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4440.4730)]
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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 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4440