WCP6083

Letter (WCP6083.7033)

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THE ROYAL SOCIETY,

BURLINGTON HOUSE,

LONDON, W.1.

2nd August, 1935.

Dear Sir,

I write to inform you that the revolving bookstand has safely arrived here, and to thank you for your welcome gift.

I note that you wish Miss Wallace’s2name to be associated with yours, when Council passes a formal vote of thanks in October.

I will put your letter before Sir Henry Dale3 when he next visits the Society4.

Yours faithfully, | R Winckworth [signature]

Assistant Secretary.

W.G. Wallace, Esq[uire].,

Doveshill,

Ensbury Mount,

Bournemouth.

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The letter is typewritten and signed by the author in ink. The page is numbered [WP16/2/60] in pencil in the top RH corner.

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Wallace, Violet Isabel (1869-1945) Daughter and second child of ARW, and sister of the recipient (see Endnote 2).
3
Dale, Henry Hallett (1875-1968) English pharmacologist and physiologist. He shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi for the discovery of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. He was Secretary of the Royal Society 1925-1935 and President 1940-1945.
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The Royal Society is a learned society for Science founded in November 1660 and granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II. ARW was made a Fellow in 1893.

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Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6083.7033)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6083,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6083