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Letter from A. R. Wallace to Thomas Sims, undated and Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William from Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset), 23 Feb 1909 re sending copy of "Pall Mall Magazine" containing interview with and photos of A. R. Wallace; description of Diplodocus skeleton at the Natural History Museum, donated by Carnegie; Birds of Paradise; meeting at NHM 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. Place: Brazil Broadstone Dorset Tring Hertfordshire England Notes: OLD REF Letter re a curious event 1909: WP1/19/12/1 |
