WCP6211

Letter (WCP6211.7187)

[1]1

WYKEHAM HOUSE.

OXFORD POST & TELEGR[APH].

May 13, 1926.

Dear Mr. Wallace2,

This is the paper I told you of3. My copies have come later & it is much later than I expected that I am able to send this. How I should have enjoyed talking over the subject with your father. With kind regards & hoping that you are all4 well,

I am, | Yours sincerely, | E. B. Poulton5 [signature]

1
The page is numbered WP16/1/117 [1 of 2] in pencil in the top LH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Likely to have been a copy of the author’s Presidential address to the Entomological Society: Poulton, E. B. (1926) The President’s Address Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London Vol. 73, Issue 5, pages xc-civ. In a previous letter of 4 April 1926 (WCP6210) the author says that he would have liked to have discussed the subject (mimicry) with ARW.
4
Wallace, Elizabeth Carr (neé Whittle) (1888-1976) wife; Wallace, Alfred John Russel (1922- ) and Wallace, Richard Russel (1924- ), sons of recipient.
5
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 “WCP6211,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6211