WCP5676

Letter (WCP5676.6529)

[1]

The Dell, Grays, Essex

Jan[uar]y. 10th. 1875

Dear Sharpe

Have you got together any general list of African Birds you could lend me? Or have you added to your original catalogue, or to Gray[']s1 Hand List2, the new species and new localities? If you have, & could lend it me for a few days I should be much obliged. If you have nothing of the kind, will you tell me how far Hartlaub3 & Finsch[']s4 volume on Birds of East [2] Africa5 is a complete synopsis & what are its Geog[raphical] limits[?] Looking at it the other day at the Zool[ogical]. Soc[iety]. it seemed to me not to purport to be complete, is this so?

An early reply will oblige.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

R. B. Sharpe Esq.

1
Gray, George Robert (1808-1872). English zoologist.
2
Hand-list of Genera and Species of Birds, Distinguishing Those Contained in the British Museum. Three volumes written by George Robert Gray and published from 1869 to 1871 by the British Museum. Not to be confused with the series of books of the same name written by Richard Bowdler Sharpe and published between 1899 and 1909.
3
Hartlaub, Gustav (1884-1963). German ornithologist.
4
Finsch, Otto (1839-1917). German naturalist.
5
Die Vögel Ost-Afrikas. Book written by Otto Finsch and Gustav Hartlaub, published in 1870. The date of translation is unknown.

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Transcribed by Rodwell, Stephen [2014-09-19] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-09-19] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

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