WCP4552

[1]

Broadstone, Dorset.

March 6th. 1903

My dear Meldola¹

As you are a member of the Roy. Astronomical Society will you be so good as to inform me whether I can purchase back numbers of the "Monthly Notices" & at what price. I want the no. for Dec. 1872 containing two charts of Proper Notions of Stars² by R. A. Proctor.³ I also want the two Maps of Nebulae and Clusters in "Proctors Old and New Astronomy"⁴ completed by Ranyard⁵ — taken from the "Monthly Notices" Aug. 1873; and these last, or both I want permission to reproduce, or have use of the blocks. Do you think [2] a person not a Member can have this permission, or will you recommend me.

Can you tell me also if Ranyard is still alive, & is he one of the Editors of "Knowledge".

I am writing a book on the subject discussed in my paper⁶ in this month’s "Fortnightly" which I am informed by the Agent of the New York Independent (for whom I wrote the article) he thinks will sell well as the subject is rather a taking one.

[3] I see the Fortnightly is advertised as a 2nd Edn.! I presume on account of my article which is no.1. — ^{(not necessarily A.1)!}

I don’t think you will think much of it.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]