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WCP659

Letter (WCP659.831)

[1]

9, St. Mark's Crescent

Regent's Park.

London, N.W.

Septr. 18th. 1869

Dear Sir

My paper on Iphias was published in the Entom "Journal of Entomology", No. 7. January 1863,1 and I have no separate copies of it or would have sent you one with pleasure. I now send the paper on "Formosa Lepidoptera",2 — & one or two others of general matters, & will forward you copies of my "Notes on Eastern Butterflies"3 as I get them. I certainly sent a copy of my Paper on "Papilionidae" in the Linn. Trans.4 to your father.5 Did he never receive it, or do you wish for another copy? If so I shall be most happy to send [2] you one.

Mr. W. F. Kirby6 is no relation to the Kirby.7 He is a young man who has taken to the study of Lepidoptera and is now an assistant in the Dublin Museum. The first part of his Catalogue8 is now printing, containing the Danaidae. I believe it will be very accurate in the Synonymy, but I fear less so in discriminating species.

I have I think all your papers except the 3rd. series of Philippine Lepidoptera,9which I shall be very glad of. I have not [3] yet received the plates & papers you have been so kind as to forward me but hope to do so shortly.

Complaints of Mr. Walker's10 work are very numerous. I hope you will establish the genera of Exotic moths on a better foundation.

Give my kind remembrances to your father, and Believe me

Dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Herr. | Rudolph Felder.11

1
Wallace, A. R. 1863. Notes on the Genus Iphias; With Descriptions of Two New Species From the Moluccas. Journal of Entomology, 2 (7): 1-5.
2
Wallace, A. R. and Moore, Frederic. 1866. List of Lepidopterous Insects Collected at Takow, Formosa, by Mr. Robert Swinhoe. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1866. 355-364.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1869. Notes on Eastern Butterflies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for the Year 1869. 77-81. See also WCP658.830, ARW to Cajetan von Felder, 26 Jul. 1869.
4
Wallace, A. R. 1865 [1864]. On the Phenomena of Variation and Geographical Distribution as Illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan Region. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 25 (I): 1- 71.
5
Felder, Cajetan von (1814-1894). Austrian lawyer, politician, and entomologist.
6
Kirby, William Forsell (1844-1912). British entomologist and folklorist.
7
"The" Kirby was probably Kirby, William (1759-1850), British priest and naturalist, working particularly in entomology.
8
Kirby, W. F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London: John Van Voorst.
9
Felder, C. and Felder, R. 1863. Lepidoptera nova a Dre. Carolo Semper in insulis Philippinis collecta diagnosibus exposuerunt. Series tertia. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift, 7(4): 105-127.
10
Walker, Francis (1809-1874) British entomologist. Cataloguer from 1848-1873 of the British Museum's insect collection (except Coleoptera).
11
Felder, Rudolf (1842-1871). Austrian jurist and entomologist (specialising in Lepidoptera). Son of Baron Cajetan von Felder.

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