WCP4660

Letter (WCP4660.4977)

[1]1

5, Westbourne Grove Terrace, W.

Thursday Oct[tober]. 22nd.

Dear Sir

My friend Dr Sclater2 tells me that you can probably furnish me with specimens of the sternum of some of the species of American Ant-thrushes (Formicariidae.)3I shall be most happy to give you in return sterna of genera from the Moluccas & New Guinea of which I have many duplicates, & the same for any other of [2] sterna of American families of birds.

I require the above-mentioned sternum as soon as possible to enable me to complete a paper I am now writing for the "Ibis"4, I should therefore be much obliged if you could send it me by post.

I remain | Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

J. C. Eyton Esq.

1
Wallace omits to refer to the year in which he wrote this letter. However, he was resident at Westbourne Grove from 1862 to 1865.
2
Philip Lutley Sclater (1829 — 1913). English lawyer, zoologist and expert ornithologist.
3
A family of smallish passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America.
4
A journal published since 1859, by the British Ornithological Union.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4660.4977)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Cooper, Rod [2013-01-30] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-30]

Please cite as “WCP4660,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4660