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WCP6089

Letter (WCP6089.7040)

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BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)

CROMWELL ROAD,

LONDON, S. W.

21st January 1915.

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your reply to my letter, and for the information you so kindly sent me about the little flycatcher2. I hope you will give the Trustees of this Museum3 the 1st refusal of D[octo]r. Wallace’s most interesting and valuable Journals before offering them to any other individual or institution. It seems to me a matter of national importance.

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I have handed your letter to D[octo]r. Harmer4 the keeper of the Zool[ogical]. Dep[artmen]t. who is immensely interested and will write to you at once[.]

Yours faithfully | W R Ogilvie-Grant [signature]

W. G. Wallace E[s]q[uire]

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The page is numbered WP16/2/66 in pencil in the top LH corner.

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The little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae found in the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia; the little grey flycatcher (Muscicapa epulata) also in Muscicapidae is found in west and central Africa; the little yellow flycatcher (Erythrocercus holochlorus) is in the family Erythrocercidae and found in east Africa.
3
The British Museum (Natural History) was the first branch institution of the British Museum, opened in South Kensington in 1881.
4

Harmer, Sidney Frederic (1862-1950) British marine zoologist. He was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum 1909-1921 and later Director of the Museum 1919-1927.

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

Please cite as “WCP6089,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6089