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Frith Hill, Godalming

June 27th 1886

Dear Mr. Slater

I enclose titles of a few of the best books on British Entomology.

I have put up in a box the lot of Australian plants I spoke to you of and will send them to you by Sutton. Some I fear are infested with weevils & if worth keeping will want dressing with weak solution of corrosive sublimate or some other preservative. To fill up the box I have sent [2] a few specimens of alpine plants which I gathered some fifteen years ago in Switzerland & which may be of interest to some one. I send them by goods train & I suppose your Society will not mind paying the carriage for them. I was very glad I staid [sic] with you for I am sure the excellent dinner you gave me did me good,— but it [3] took me two or three days quiet at home to recover from my railway indigestion & fatigue.

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

P.S. I think I left the cartes[?] you gave me. I find that I have not a single copy of some left, but will remember you when I get another lot. | A.R.W.

[4] 2/ Entomological Books

Colemans British Butterflies in Routledge & Co. 1/-

Newman's British Moths — Hardwick & Bogue (woodcuts of all the species of layer moths.) ? 25/-

Stainton's Manual of Butterflies & Moths. 2 vols. Van Voorst (ab^t 6/- second hand)

Saunder's Synopsis of British Hymenoptera Pt I (from Trans. Ent. Soc.) 6/- Longmans

" [Saunder's] Fossorial Hymenoptera 4/6 " [Longmans]

Cox, (H.E.) Handbook of the Coleoptera of Gt. Britain & Ireland.. 2 vols ? 21/-

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The above can be obtained from W. Wesley & Son. Booksellers, 28, Essex Street Strand.

Second Hand or at a lower price.