| Ref No | WP/1/1/202 |
| Alt Ref No | WP1/1/202 |
| Title | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William Wallace, from Broadstone, Dorset |
| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William from Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset), 23 Feb 1909 regarding sending copy of 'Pall Mall Magazine' containing interview with and photos of Alfred Russel Wallace; description of Diplodocus skeleton at the Natural History Museum, donated by Carnegie; Birds of Paradise; meeting at Natural History Museum with Jordan and Rothschild who had brought some New Guinea butterflies for him to see, invitation from Rothschild to spend a week at Tring, may go in the summer; emergence of three small Longicorn beetles from a clump of orchids sent from Buenos Ayres by John Hall, two caught and identified by British Museum as a species of Ibidion not in its collection; capture of a large orange and brown moth or butterfly which Rothschild thinks a Castnia, in the orchid house and a chrysalis on same orchid as the one harbouring the Longicorns, has sent moth and chrysalis to Prof Poulton for the Oxford collection, amazement that the same plant should produce both a rare moth and beetle after a year in a greenhouse.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
Jordan, Heinrich Ernst Karl, 1861-1959
Rothschild, Lionel Walter, 1868-1937, 2nd Baron Rothschild of Tring
Hall, John, fl 1909
Poulton, Sir Edward Bagnall, 1856-1943, knight
Place: Brazil Broadstone Dorset England Tring Hertfordshire England
Notes: OLD REF Letter re a curious event 1909: WP1/19/12/1 |
| Date | 23 Feb 1909 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Held By | NHM General Library |
| Extent | Letter |
| Level | Item |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| PX473 | Wallace; Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Biologist | 1823-1913 |
| PX5683 | Carnegie; Andrew (1835-1919) | 1835-1919 |
| PX403 | Jordan; Heinrich Ernst Karl (1861-1959); Entomologist | 1861-1959 |
| PX53 | Rothschild; Lionel Walter (1868-1937); 2nd Baron Rothschild of Tring; Ornithologist and Collector | 1868-1937 |
| PX5684 | Hall; John (fl 1909) | fl 1909 |
| PX694 | Poulton; Sir; Edward Bagnall (1856-1943); Zoologist | 1856-1943 |
| PX5162 | Wallace; William Greenell (1871-1951); Electrical engineer | 1871-1951 |