WCP6979

Letter (WCP6979.8088)

[1]

Hurstpierpoint, Sussex

March 10th. 1868

My dear Sir

I return your notes on the Spizaeti,1 which I think very accurate. I have already sent a much shorter and less detailed note2 to Prof. Newton3 for insertion in the next "Ibis"4, and I should much like your notes to be sent also if you have no objection. I would suggest however that after "Spizaetus borneonensis Gray" you should insert the word "MSS." or [2] "not described", — as, on principle, should that form turn out to be distinct, I should claim for it the name of S[pizaetus]. nanus in preference to S[pizaetus]. borneonensis.

On p. 3. will you add to Spizaetus borneonensis Gray, — MSS. = = Spizaetus nanus Wall. Ibis. 1868. p.14.5

With these exceptions there is not a word I would wish altered.

Believe me | Yours very truly

Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

J. H. Gurney Esq.6

1
Gurney's enclosed notes are presumed missing.
2
See ARW to Alfred Newton, 8 March 1868 (WCP4025.3968).
3
Newton, Alfred (1829-1907). British zoologist and ornithologist.
4
Wallace, A. R. 1868. Corrections of, and Additions to, the Catalogue of the Raptorial Birds of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis. 4(14): 215-216.
5
Wallace, A. R. 1868 On the Raptorial Birds of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis. 4(13): 1-27 [p.14].
6
"J. H. Gurney Esq." is written in ARW's hand at the bottom of page 1.

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Transcribed by Sherwood, Danni [2020-05-19] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-12-31]

Please cite as “WCP6979,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6979