WCP5668

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Parkstone, Dorset.

Nov[embe]r 17th. 1899

My dear Sharpe[,]

I am preparing for publication most of my Review & other articles including one on ''New Guinea & its Inhabitants''. For this and others I am getting as many illustrative Cuts & photographs as I can to make the volume more generally attractive. Among others I should like to show the new types of Birds of Par. that have been recently described. I propose to give a photo. from Meyer's figure of the wonderful Pteridophora alberti¹, and I should like to give also Astrarchia Stephania², — Paradisorius Rudolphi³, and [2] any other distinct <forms?> that may have been figured. Can you let me have ^{on loan or to purchase} uncoloured plates of the above-named, with permission to give photographic reproductions of them? [O]r reduced woodcuts? — [A]nd if you can tell me of any other quite distinct & stricking [sic] forms of birds from New Guinea which have been figured, & where, I shall be much obliged.

Hoping that yourself and family are in good health,

Believe me │ Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Dr. R. B. Sharpe