WCP4633

Letter (WCP4633.4947)

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Holly House, Barking E.

April 16th. 1871

Dear Westwood1

My remaining Coleoptera are given in the list on the other side, with the number of specimens roughly. — My collections have almost all averaged, a species to about 2 or 2½ specimens. I append the prices per. specimen put at about the same rate as I have hitherto received.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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Mr. Wallace’s Coleoptera

Anthribidae.. about 1050 @ 1/-

Brenthidae..... 600 @ 1/-

Malacoderms — 1000 @ 6d..

Scarabaeidae & Geotrupidae..... 310 @ 8d..

Erotylidae..... 260 @ 8d..

Philhydridae.. 100 @ 3d.

Passalidae... 96 @ 4d.

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Westwood, John Obadiah (1805-1893). British entomologist and palaeographer. Hope Professor of Zoology, Oxford University, 1861-93.

Please cite as “WCP4633,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4633