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WCP838

Letter (WCP838.1010)

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[in blue pencil in unknown hand] Wallace

Parkstone, Dorset.

June 28th. 1891

Oldfield Thomas Esq.1

Dear Sir

Mr. Everett2 has sent me from Borneo the accompanying lists of mammals of Borneo & the Philippines. Will you have the kindness to look over them and cross out any species you think are not good. And also mark, for the Bats of Borneo and for the mammals generally of [2] the Philippines, the species which you consider to be peculiar. — No doubt you will be able to do this with little trouble, or I would not ask you. I want to give fairly accurate statements as to the number of peculiar species in these islands for the new Edition of my "Island Life".3

Yours very truly │Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Thomas, Oldfield Michael Rogers (1858-1929). Assistant keeper of Mammalia at the Natural History Museum.
2
Everett, Alfred Hart (1848-1898). British civil servant in Borneo, naturalist and collector.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1892. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. Second and revised edition. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP838.1010)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Monshin, Deborah [2012-07-10] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-12-24]

Please cite as “WCP838,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP838