Ɛpsilon

WCP4540

Letter (WCP4540.4847)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Novr. 26th. 1897

My dear Meldola1

I enclose card of an Exhibition of Butterflies preserved & displayed on a new method by a gentleman I met in America, son2 of Prof. Denton3 a geological lecturer & very clever man. Will you go & see it some day & make it known.

When we last heard from Will4 he was bicycling across the continent somewhere on the prairies between Chicago & Denver.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Meldola, Raphael (1849-1915). British chemist and entomologist.
2

Denton had four sons. Sherman Foote (1856-1937), Shelley

Wright (1859-1938) (who did lithography work for Wallace’s old friend William Henry Edwards), William Dixon (1865–1923) and Robert Winsford (1866–1959). (Smith, 2013)

3
. Denton, William (1823-1883). American geologist and experimenter in psychometry.
4
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951). Son of ARW.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4540.4847)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-23] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4540,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4540