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WCP6237

Letter (WCP6237.7220)

[1]1

163 WOODSTOCK ROAD,

OXFORD.

May 15th 1915

Dear Sir2

The enclosed is evidently not intended for me, but for Professor Thomson3 of Aberdeen.

Yours very truly | Arthur Thomson4 [signature]

1
The page is numbered [WP16/1/144] in pencil at the top.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Thomson, John Arthur (1861-1933) Scottish naturalist who was an expert on soft corals. He taught at the University of Aberdeen 1899-1930, the year in which he was knighted. His popular works sought to reconcile science and religion.
4
Thomson, Arthur (1858-1935) British anatomist and anthropologist. He was one of three professors who founded the Oxford Anthropology Department in 1905. From 1919 until his retirement in 1933, he was the first Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at Oxford.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6237.7220)]

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

Please cite as “WCP6237,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6237