WCP5688

Written at the top left of the page in an unidentified hand, possibly Sharpe's, is "Wallace".

Probably April or later. '1873 ...This year was celebrated for the acquisition of the Wallace and Monteiro collections ... 2474 specimens from the Malay Archipelago, collected by Dr. A. R. Wallace ... 27 Hawks and Owls from the River Amazon, collected by Dr. A. R. Wallace ... Dr. Wallace allowed the Museum to acquire his Amazonian collection of Accipitres for the purposes of the "Catalogue of Birds."' The British Museum. 1904-1912. The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. Libraries. The Department of Botany. The Department of Geology. The Department of Minerals. 3. vols. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. 2. R. Bowdler Sharpe. (Lankester, E. R., Ed.) Birds. pp. 257-258. See also letters from ARW to Richard Bowdler Sharpe, on the valuation and sale of ARW's collection of bird specimens; e.g. WCP5686.6539, ARW to Sharpe 28 Feb 1873, and WCP5684.6537, ARW to Sharpe, 18 March 1873.

Acippiter. (plural Accipitres) a genus of birds of prey (hawks, eagles etc.)

There is possible mathematical calculation "0 +1/+ 59"[?] in an unknown hand to the left of the signature.