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WCP4561

Transcription (WCP4561.4868)

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Dr. Wallace1

Dear Sir,

We have [MS burned] collectors on the Orinoco and I can advise Mr. Birch2 to avoid Venezuela He [MS burned] not be able to get up to the Upper port[MS burned] river. Insect life is fairly abundant [MS burned] hills up the southern tributaries of th[MS burned] but collecting is not easy as all supp[MS burned] to be brought up. (Consult Mr. Andr[MS burned]

As regards Nicaragua I can only s[MS burned] from our personal point of view. We h[MS burned] very little material from there. But [MS burned] country has been well worked by Mr. [MS burned] I think.

No, Champion3 just touched Nicaragua.4

As I have seen only a remnant of Birch’s Trinidad Lepidoptera I cannot well judge if he is sufficiently instru[MS burned] in the art of amassing insects to make collecting pay. There are so many [MS burned] out now collecting that onl<y> [MS burned] man can make [MS burned] [2] [MS burned]s I know the material of [MS burned] <Le>pidoptera and Coleoptera from [MS burned] <Ni>caragua existing in collections is <v>ery limited and a collector should [MS burned] well there if he finds enough specimens.

Yours very truly | K. Jordan.5

1
Wallace, Lewis Alexander (1821-1906). British businessman, partner of Wallace & Co., Bombay, later of Wallace Brothers & Co. Ltd., East India Merchants, bankers and London agents.
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Birch, Frederick ("Fred") (1876-1952). British naturalist and natural history collector. Honorary Secretary of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society.
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Champion, George Charles (1851-1927). British entomologist specialising in the study of beetles.
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Jordan, Heinrich Ernst Karl (1861-1959). German-British entomologist with special interest in the taxonomy and classification of butterflies, beetles and fleas.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Knott, Peter [2012-07-24] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4561,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4561