WCP654

Letter (WCP654.826)

[1]

9 St Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park

London, N.W.

Oct. 26th 1865.

My dear Sir

Of course I must accept your explanation, as it appears, that you have obtained all my captures from other sources, — & that you were not aware I was going to describe any new species. It will therefore be chiefly owing to my own slowness in publishing my discoveries that the inconvenient confusion of names has arisen.1

I shall receive with great pleasure your work on the [2] Pieridae and Danaidae,2 after which I hope to occupy myself with the latter group in which I possess many curious forms.

I remain | My dear Dr. Felder | Yours very sincerely | Alfred R Wallace [signature]

Dr. C. Felder

1
See WCP639.811, ARW to C. Felder, 20 Sep. 1865.
2
The butterfly families Pieridae (pp. 139-216) and Danaidae (pp. 314-368) were included in Felder, C. and Felder, R. 1864-1867. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857 , 1858 , 1859 , unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf — Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. Zweiter Abtheilung: Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera. Wien: Carl Gerold's Sohn.

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Transcribed by McCombie, Arleen [2012-02-16] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP654,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP654