| Name: |
Wallace Alfred Russel, Spruce Richard, Markham Sir Clements Robert, Pierce Richard, Fraser Louis, LaCondamine Charles Marie, Hooker Sir William Jackson, Bentham George, Poeppig E F, Matthews ?, Blacker Alexander |
| Description: |
Letter from Richard Spruce to A. R. Wallace, from Amotape, Peru, 21 Nov 1863 re journey from Guayaquil, heart-attack, paralysis, general ill-health and poverty, inability to collect insects for A. R. Wallace; botany, illness preventing his work on collection of mosses; bitterness at treatment by Sir William Hooker; newspaper reports on Darwin's "Origin of Species", geographical distribution of species; A. R. Wallace's Malayan collections; collectors in the Andes; tameness of native birds; marriage; possibility of returning to England. Place: Amotape Peru Andes South America Banos Ecuador Guayaquil Mount Chimborazo Quito Tarapoto Peru Payata Notes: Letter no in contents list: 53. 2 Large folios |
