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WCP7285

Letter (cc) (WCP7285.8490)

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Sir Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.,

Wykeham House,

Banbury Road,

Oxford.

8 July 1936

Dear Sir Edward Poulton,1

On my return here I found your letter, dated 9 May last, concerning the eight manuscripts2 of Alfred Russel Wallace.3I consider that these manuscripts are a valuable addition to our Manuscript Collections and on behalf of the Council I should like to thank you for sending them to our Society.

Yours sincerely, | Assistant Secretary.4

1
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943). British Entomologist. Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College.
2
Field Notebooks 2-5 (WCP5799, WCP4766, WCP5800, and WCP4767), and Travel Journal, Parts 1-4 (WCP5795, WCP5796, WCP5797 and WCP5798). WCP4766 and WCP4767 are now in the Natural History Museum, London.
3
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). British naturalist, scientist, explorer, author, social campaigner, and humanitarian.
4
Savage, Spencer (1886-1966). Botanist. Librarian and Assistant Secretary of the Linnean Society of London (1929-1951).

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Transcribed by Chua, Christine [2025-01-07]

Please cite as “WCP7285,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7285