WCP6056

Form letter (WCP6056.7006)

[1]1

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 am directed to convey to you the thanks of the LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON3 for your present of the following: publication

Manuscript Diary of Richard Spruce’s4 expeditions5,

Which has been received and deposited in the Society’s Library Archives.

I am, | Yours faithfully, | S. Savage [signature]

Assistant Secretary.

1
The acknowledgement takes the form of typewritten entries on a proforma and signed in ink. The printed text is shown in italics in this transcript. The page is numbered [WP16/2/33] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
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.
4
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.
5
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.

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Revision history

Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-07-03] Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP6056,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6056