WCP6055

Letter (WCP6055.7005)

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THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON,

BURLINGTON HOUSE,

PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.1.

29 January 1934.

W. G. Wallace2 Esq[uire].,

Doveshill,

Ensbury Park,

Bournemouth.

Dear Sir,

I have received your letter dated 26 January, enclosing Richard Spruce’s3 Diary4, and would like to express to you my best thanks for your kindness in sending this interesting M[anu]S[cript]. to the Society5. Like our other M[anu]S[cript]S., it will of course be available to any one, whether a fellow or not. I have no doubt that a special letter of thanks will be sent to you after I have reported your donation to the Council.

Yours faithfully, | S. Savage6 [signature]

Assistant Secretary.

1
The letter is typewritten and signed in ink. The page is numbered [WP16/2/32] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Spruce, Richard (1817-1893) English botanist and explorer of the Amazon region. In 1849 he followed ARW and Henry Walter Bates to the Amazon Basin, collecting more than 30,000 plant specimens there and in the Andes during the next 14 years.
4
ARW edited and condensed Spruce’s manuscript notebooks, which were published in two volumes: Spruce, R. (1908) Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes: being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864, 2 vols. London, Macmillan.
5
The Linnean Society was founded in 1788 for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history, and named in honour of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist.
6
Savage, Spencer (no dates found) Librarian and Assistant Secretary of the Linnean Society (see Endnote 5).

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP6055,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 1 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6055