WCP667

Letter (WCP667.839)

[1]

Mountsfield,

Lewisham

S.E.

3.12. [18]691

A. R. Wallace Esq

9 St Mark's Crescent

NW

Mr Saunders2 handed me last summer a parcel of MS being a Cat[alogue]. of Aculeate Hymenoptera of India & Eastern Archipelago3 — prefaced by some introductory remarks by yourself. I propose to have them as one of the papers4 for the Linnean Society on Thursday the 16th inst[ant] & therefore write to ask if it would be convenient to you to read your own paper that evening. I propose first to have Kirby's5 paper6 on generic nomenclature, on which you will probably have some remarks to make so that you will be able to kill two birds with one stone.

1
3 December 1869.
2
Saunders, William Wilson (1809-1879). British insurance broker, entomologist, and botanist.
3
Paper read 16 December 1869 at the Linnean Society of London. "A Catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago". See endnote 4 below.
4
See Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. December 2nd, 1869, to May 24th, 1870, Proceedings Linnean Society London. 82(2): [p. xxxiii]
5
Kirby, William (1759-1850), British priest and naturalist, working particularly in entomology.
6
Paper read 16 December 1869 at the Linnean Society of London. "On the necessity of a reform in the Generic Nomenclature of Diurnal Lepidoptera, illustrated by a review of the Genera proposed from the time of Linnaeus to the year 1816". See endnote 4 above.

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