WCP4628

Letter (WCP4628.4942)

[1]

5, Westbourne Grove Terrace | W.

Feb. 16th. 1865

Dear Westwood1

I am now drawing up the reference table to the plates illustrating my paper2 — Will you be so good as to let me know if the following is the right reference to the insects figured in Plate 8.

Fig.1 Papilio Gigon & P[apilio] demolion.

2[ditto] Macedon — peranthus.

3[ditto] Androcles — Antiphates.

4[ditto] telephus — jason.

5[ditto] Miletus — Sarpedon.

6[ditto] Agamemnon. var. Agamemnon. var.

I only ask because it is [2] impossible to recognise insects by the outline of the fore wings only, & the order of some of them may possibly have been changed.

When can you let me have my specimens back?3 I suppose you have finished with them now.

Hoping you are quite well this severe weather[.]

Believe me| Yours very sincerely,| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

J. O. Westwood Esq[uire].

1
Westwood, John Obadiah (1805-1893). British entomologist and archaeologist.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1866. On the Phenomena of Variation and Geographical Distribution as Illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan Region. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 25(1): 1-71. ARW had presented this paper at the Linnean Society on 17 March 1864, and it was first published separately in 1865.
3
Presumably Westwood had borrowed ARW’s specimens to illustrate them for the plates accompanying ARW’s paper referred to in note 3. Westwood had illustrated many entomological monographs.

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Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-26] Transcription checked by Barton, Michael [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP4628,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4628