Autograph Letter Signed, to J. E. Gray, Esq., British Museum, London. "My dear sir". Written at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia. Feb. 13, 1840.

Verlag: 1840., Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia,, 1840

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[9 x 7.25 inches]. 4 pages, folded; small portion trimmed in circular section (minor loss). Very good condition. LETTER BY A COLLEAGUE OF CHARLES DARWIN'S, RELATING TO MAMMALIA (BATS) SPECIMENS OBTAINED FROM CUBA & AUSTRALIA: Rare autograph letter written by British naturalist William Macleay, to John Edward Gray of the British Museum, regarding the collection of specimen bats, Mammalia and birds. Reference is made to the author's priori residence in Cuba, where he collected a specimen of bat that is now named for him. Macleay's last part of his life was spent in Sydney, Australia, and it is here from which he writes Gray in 1840. I believe that Gray did publish findings on the bats, as two articles written by Gray were published in 1838-9 relating to these collections [see citations below]. The letter mentions ornithologist and artist John Gould, who is responsible for the collecting and research on birds. Charles Darwin cites all three naturalists, Gray, Gould and Macleay in his classic "On the Origin of Species". / LETTER TEXT: "My dear sir, Before I left England I gave into your hands, for the British Museum a Collection of Bats from Cuba and another of reptiles of Amphibia from the same Island, on condition that you would speedily publish them. You promised faithfully that you would publish them in Taylor's Annals of Natural History, during the winter of 1838 and as soon as possible after my departure from England. I am however disappointed to find that they have never been published, and as I saw your M.S.S. before I left England I shall be obliged by your writing me a line to let me know the cause of the delay. / I am making larger collections of all kinds here except Mammalia and Birds. Those departments of the Animal Kingdom I leave to Gould who has been hard at work and has collected he says considerable information on the Manners of the Birds of the Interior. My attention has been more particularly directed to the invertebrated Animals because they have been most neglected. Even the insects (except the more common species) are quite unknown. — I should be happy to exchange with the British Museum Insects of Australia of [Indies?], Cape of G. Hope and these [Austral?] for the Insects and Crustacea [of] [text missing] Mexico. I wish very much to [text missing] [complete?] my Collections of the invertebrate Animals of the Gulf of Mexico." / William Sharp Macleay or McLeay (1792-1865), British civil servant and entomologist, matriculated to Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1814 with honors. "Macleay moved to Havana, Cuba, where he was, in turn, commissioner of arbitration, commissary judge [1844-6], and then judge. Retiring from this work, he emigrated to Australia, where he continued to collect insects and studied marine natural history." Macleay's principal work was Horae Entomologicae; or, Essays on the Annulose Animals, parts 1-2 (1819—1821). McLeay was an early correspondent with Charles Darwin, though he "condemned evolution outright". [Janet Browne, Power, p.192. "Macleay emigrated to Australia in 1839, living briefly at the Colonial Secretary's House in Macquarie Place with his parents before moving in September of that year to the family's still unfinished Elizabeth Bay House. He took possession of the estate in 1845. . ." / Macleay's mustached bat, named for him, called, Pteronotus macleayii, is a species of bat in the family Mormoopidae, found in Cuba and Jamaica. / John Edward Gray (1800-1875), FRS, British zoologist, the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray. During his 50 years employed at the British Museum, Gray wrote nearly 500 papers. / See: Gray, John Edward, "A revision of the genera of bats (Vespertilionidae), and the description of some new genera and species." Magazine of zoology and botany, 2 : 483—505. 1838. REFERENCES: Gray, John Edward, "Descriptions of some Mammalia discovered in Cub.…

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Autograph Letter Signed, to J. E. Gray, Esq., British Museum, London. "My dear sir". Written at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia. Feb. 13, 1840.
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MACLEAY, William Sharp (1792-1865).
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1840., Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia,
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1840
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