WCP4816

Letter (WCP4816.5211)

[1]

Septr. 13th.

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne

Dear Mr. Harting1

I think the most likely place to find the information you want is in Buffon’s great work.

I remember many years ago looking over it, & being astonished at the mass of interesting and out-of-the-way facts as to the habits & life history of animals there given. But probably the Superintendent of the Zool[ogical]. Gardens could give you [2] the information if you write to him.

I am fairly well but just now am suffering from Eczema & Rheumatism.

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

1
James Edmund Fotheringham Harting (1841-1928). English ornithologist and naturalist. He was the editor of The Zoologist from 1877 to 1896. He was also a fellow of the Linnaen Society (and assistant secretary and librarian). He was considered an authority of British birds.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4816.5211)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-06-05]

Please cite as “WCP4816,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4816