WCP4633

Letter (WCP4633.4947)

[1]

Holly House, Barking E[ssex].1

April 16th. 1871

Dear Westwood2

My remaining Coleoptera3 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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1
Wallace rented Holly House, Tanner Street, Barking from 22 March 1870 to 25 March 1872.
2
Westwood, John Obadiah (1805-1893). British entomologist and archaeologist.
3
The order of insects that includes beetles and weevils. Westwood regularly purchased insect specimens from ARW for the collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Earl of Cranbrook and Mann, D. J. 2016. Alfred Russel Wallace and His Collections in the Malay Archipelago, with a Proposal for International Cooperation to Produce a Digital Catalogue. In: Das, I. and Tuen, A. A. (Eds). Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia. New York: Springer. [pp. 15-50, on p. 40]).

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

Please cite as “WCP4633,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4633