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From:
Henry Simpson Lunn
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 151
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Thanking him for his volume on Darwin. Has received circular from Galton about suggested Royal Society Biological Farm.
Request from her brother William for aid to an unemployed schoolmaster; gardening; orchids; MS demanded by Violet sent; articles by Nansen sent.
Glad Hartert wrote to ARW re. Ptilotis limbata because ARW seems to have overlooked fact that had found it in Bali - obtained only 1 specimen there - fault of agent that it got misplaced from ARW's private collection (which was afterwards purchased by the BM) & was bought by Mr Gould. ARW's notes indicate Ptilotis limbata obtained by him in Baly [sic] and Lombok. Inc. list of birds collected by ARW June 13+14, 1856.
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Her brother William; arrangements for Christmas; bicycles; Mrs Stetson; Mr Waddington; visit from the Sharpes and Lady Torrens, Lady Torrens on spiritualism; Violet's K.G. (Kindergarten) magazine.
JDH has just written an obituary for [Brian Houghton] Hodgson & will now write one for Ferdinand] von Mueller. Writing these Society obituaries is becoming too much work for JDH. JDH has been corresponding regarding [Joseph] Banks. Mr Ings[?] has sent him letters written by [Daniel] Solander, Cunningham, & [William?] Anderson which will be donated to the RBG Kew herbarium. JDH is pleased that Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer will take over the finances for the Royal Society, not Britten. As a trial for work on the Ceylon [Sri Lanka] flora JDH has been looking at the genera Carex & Fimbristylis with reference to work by [George] Clarke & [Geroge] Bentham. He thinks it would take him 2 years & 2 volumes to complete the flora following [Henry] Trimen's style, & the Government will need to subsidise it. JDH has heard that [George] King is going to request another year [as Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden and Cinchona cultivation in Bengal].
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JDH writes that he is enclosing Bambuseae yarn for Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [enclosure not present]. Mentions a wild type of Primula sinensis, he thinks it may be difficult to get this species name upheld as [João de] Loureiro formerly named a species 'sinensis'. JDH complains about the quality of [George] Lawson's work for the FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, he particularly mentions his descriptions of Leea & Vitis. JDH remarks that Lawson's work agrees with [Henry] Trimen's regarding Ceylon [Sri Lanka] species but this does not carry much weight with JDH. Also JDH's Orchideae for the flora need revising as their have been so many additions from [George] King & [Henry Nicholas] Ridley. JDH is writing to ask King what it would cost to send copies of all the later CAlcuatta Botanic Gardens orchids to RBG Kew & to suggest King publish them in a volume of the ANNALS [OF BOTANY].
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