WCP6878

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Dorset.

April 3rd. 1912

A. F. R. Wollaston Esq.

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your kindness in wishing to dedicate your Record of the B.O.U.¹ Expedition to New Guinea to myself. It is an honour which I shall greatly appreciate. I have followed the recent rapid growth [2] of our knowledge of the fauna and flora of that wonderful Island with great interest, and I greatly regretted that the expedition was so unfortunate in the locality chosen, which seems to have been the fullest of obstacles of various kinds of all the parts yet explored.

I hope that some other [3] party will soon visit the same or some adjacent region, whose primary object Shall be the collection of the fauna rather than mountain climbing.

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]