WCP4624

Postcard (WCP4624.4938)

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Broadstone, Dorset.

July 2^nd. 1903

Dear Meldola

Is it correct to say that the oxygen and carbon in CO2 can only be separated in the laboratory by great heat.

Yours truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Reply on P[ost] Card — if yes!

Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP4624.4938)]

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Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-26] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP4624,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4624

Asks if it is correct to say that the oxygen and carbon in CO2 can only be separated in the laboratory by great heat?.

Record number: WCP4624
Item number: 4938
From: Alfred Russel Wallace
To: Raphael Meldola
Date: 2 July 1903
Sent from: Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne, Dorset, England
Sent to: City and Guilds of London Institute, 6 Brunswick Square, London, W.C., England
Source of text: Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 282
Physical description: Postcard, 2 pp. of contemporary text
Hand: Handwritten in the author’s hand and signed by author
Language: English