WCP5672

Letter (WCP5672.6525)

[1]

Frith Hill, Godalming.

Jan[uar]y 17th. 1889

My dear Sharpe[,]

Carpococcyx is given from Sumatra in both Bonaparte's Conspectus1 & Schlegel's Mus. des Pays Bas.2 — the latter certainly a good authority. Pityriasis is given for Sumatra in G. R. Gray's3 Hand List, — I presume on the authority of one of the two authorities he <quote?> or of specimens in 1811.

Yours faithfully[,]

Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

R. B. Sharpe Esq.

1
Conspectus Generum Avium by Bonaparte, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (1803-1857). French biologist and ornithologist.
2
Mus um d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas by Schlegel, Hermann (1804-1884). German onithologist and herpetologist.
3
Gray, George Robert (1808-1872). English zoologist and author.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP5672.6525)]

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Transcribed by Munro, Rosemary [2014-09-10] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-09-10] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP5672,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5672