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WCP4629

Letter (WCP4629.4943)

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9. St. Mark’s Crescent

June 24th. [1867]1

Dear Westwood2

Can you be so good as to send me the description of that new genus & species of Cetonia from Penang — or at least the name as I want to incorporate it in my paper3 to read this day week.

Yours very truly,| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Prof. Westwood.

1
The date is established based on the reading of ARW's paper on "1 July, 1867".
2
Westwood, John Obadiah (1805-1893). British entomologist and palaeographer. Hope Professor of Zoology, Oxford University, 1861-93.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1867. A catalogue of the Cetoniidae of the Malayan archipelago, with descriptions of the new species [read 1 July, 1867]. Journal of Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. xciii-xcvii.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-26] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-06-09] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4629,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4629