WCP842

[1]

Broadstone, Dorset

Jan[uary]^y 26^th 1904

Oldfield Thomas Esq.

Dear Mr Thomas,

My young friend, Fred Birch, is going out to British Guiana in a few weeks, to collect Zoological specimens & study nature generally. Will you be so good as to advise him as to what he had better collect in your department, & give him a copy of your printed instructions. Also let him know whether he can send them direct to the Museum for you to choose what you require, & whether [2] the Museum will pay him a fixed price for the specimen for such skins & skeletons of small mammals as they make take, or how prices are to be settled. I ask this because we can hear of no trustworthy agent to whom his specimens can be sent.

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