WCP767

Letter (WCP767.939)

[1]

Holly House, Barking. E.

April 26th. 1871

Dear Lord Walden1

I have very much pleasure in lending you my Malayan Timaliidae2 and Brachypodide3, as I had great difficulty in making out the species and was quite beaten by the genera. I think you will find some very interesting obscure things, and a few undescribed species. I hope the Malacca birds may lead you on to do the whole of the true Malay Islands as well [2] (Sumatra Java & Borneo)

Will you be so good as to see that the number of specimens corresponds with the enclosed note, & if so please initial & return it me. I send them in a box addressed to you at Chiselhurst.

The six Celebes birds shall be left at the Zool[ogical]. Soc[iety]. rooms as you desire.

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

The Viscount Walden

Timaliidae4 64
Brachypodide 60
124
1
Hay, Arthur (1824-1878)
2
A family of tropical birds commonly called Old World Babblers. Wikipedia. Old World babbler. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_babbler> [accessed 21 Apr. 2021].
3
A bird family in the Order Insessores. Jerdon, Thomas Claverhill. 1863. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to Inhabit Continental India: ... Calcutta: Military Orphan Press. 2(1), p. 2.
4
The annotation "Timaliidae 64 |Brachypodide 60" and the total "124" is written to the left of the valediction, apparently in ARW's hand.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP767.939)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2013-05-08] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2022-07-19]

Please cite as “WCP767,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP767