Dapitan
Dapitan, 9 May 1894
Dr. A. B. MEYER
Dresden
MY DEAR DOCTOR,
Despite the terrible rainy season we have been having here for a month, I succeeded in making a small collection of butterflies which I have the honor to send you through Messrs. Heinszen & Company in accordance with your instructions. These butterflies were caught in the month of April and the beginning of May. Some of them are in bad condition, but I send them to you nevertheless because they are not heavy and you always have the time to reject them. In any case I hope to send you better ones.
I suppose that you are in communication with Mr. Keihl of Prague of who is, according to our great friend of Leimeritz, a great collector of butterflies. Would you kindly send him half of the specimens that you do not need? I would have liked to send them directly to him, but in my difficult situation and having nobody to whom to entrust their transportation, I resort to you. After all you are my old correspondent.
In one bottle I send you also some reptiles, fishes, etc. One little bamboo box contains two pointed objects made of the same material which the Subanos use instead of a knife as well as for fishing. They belong to one of my patients or clients, as you wish to call them. There are also some coleopteran of little value.
Please tell me frankly which animals, insects, etc. you do not want so that I shall not send them to you anymore.
My services are always at your disposal.
In clasping your hand amicably, I have the honor to salute you.
Yours faithfully,
JOSE RIZAL
1 Bamboo with 1 bamboo objects of the Subanos
9 Reptiles – ampt./3 bbl, 5 Esds., 1 Frouh
1 Fish
4 Nachtuhueshu
64 Lepidopt. ½ for Mr. Heihl
7 Cicadas
3 Heunbruha
9 Kafu
2 Libella
01-819 [Family]