WCP6161

Letter (WCP6161.7136)

[1]1

FROM E. B. POULTON, WYKEHAM HOUSE, OXFORD.

Jan[uary]. 30 / 1918

Dear Mr Wallace2,

I felt sure that D[octo]r. Butler3 would be able to help you. Many thanks for the little note-book. I will study it carefully a little later when I have finished the life of our dear son4: it is now in the last stage but this is the most difficult. I think that under any circumstances it should go with the other vol[ume]s. [2] of notes to the LInnean5 Library where the your father’s Library is, &, if you are willing, I will give it table it there as from you when I have studied it.

//

Many thanks for writing. The receipt6 has come now.

With kind regards, | Yours sincerely, | E. B. Poulton7 [signature]

1
The page is numbered WP16/1/103 in pencil in the top LH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Butler, Thomas (1809-1908) Assistant Secretary, British Museum.
4
The author’s younger son, Ronald Poulton-Palmer, an English rugby union footballer who captained England, was killed in May 1915 in World War I.
5
A learned society founded in 1788 for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history, named in honour of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist.
6
Receipt for the sum of £50 towards the cost of "nursing, surgeon’s fee & other incidental expenses" for treatment of the recipient’s wife’s illness, voted by the Scientific Relief Committee of the Royal Society (see WCP6205).
7
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943) British evolutionary biologist, friend of ARW and lifelong advocate of natural selection. He did pioneering work on warning or protective colouration in animals and became Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1893.

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

Please cite as “WCP6161,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6161