Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Letter to the Canterbury Philosophical Institute (S677a: 1909)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: A letter from Wallace thanking this New Zealand Institute for the congratulations message they had sent. Printed on page 4f of the 'Local and General' section of the 8 May 1909 issue of the Wellington (New Zealand) Dominion. To link directly to
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…A letter from Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace was also read, acknowledging the Institute’s congratulations on the Order of Merit being conferred on him. Dr. Wallace wrote: "I beg to thank the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury for their kind congratulations. With regard to the sub-Antarctic Islands, should your Institute have any spare seeds of the fine herbaceous or shrubby flowering plants of those islands, a few of them would be very acceptable to me."
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