WCP6084

Letter (WCP6084.7034)

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THE ROYAL SOCIETY,

BURLINGTON HOUSE,

LONDON, W.1.

GD/MW

2 October 1942

Dear Sir,

On behalf of the Royal Society2 I wish to thank you for so kindly sending us Spruce’s3 interesting sketches and notes.

Yours sincerely, | John D Griffith Davies [signature]

Assistant Secretary

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

61, East Avenue,

Bournemouth.

Sketches of scenery, indians and rock markings.

W[illiam]. G[reenell]. W[allace].4

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The letter is typewritten and signed by the author in ink. The page is numbered [WP16/2/61] in pencil in the top RH corner.

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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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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.

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Annotation in pencil in the hand of the recipient.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6084.7034)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6084,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6084