WCP1444

To W.B.Hemsley,Esq.) Parkstone, Dorset. Feb.19th 1895

Dear Mr Hemsley

Will you kindly tell me whether the statement in the Proc.of Linn. Soc.(1894.p.10) referring to Mr C.B.Clarke as the authority for the Empetrum nigrum in Dorset (which you exhibited May 4th. 1893) is correct or a mistake[?] I thought Mr Mitten sent you the specimen. I was with him when he found it in 1892. When I saw Clarke's name in "Nature" I and Mitten both thought it was a misprint, but as it stands in the Linn. Proc. I suppose there is something in it. If Mr Clarke did find it, at what date was it?

Yours very truly Alfred R. Wallace.

To W. B. Hemsley, Esq.) Parkstone, Dorset. Feb.19th 1895

Dear Mr Hemsley

Will you kindly tell me whether the statement in the Proc. of Linn. Soc.(1894.p.10) referring to Mr C.B.Clarke as the authority for the Empetrum nigrum in Dorset (which you exhibited May 4th. 1893) is correct or a mistake [?] I thought Mr Mitten sent you the specimen. I was with him when he found it in 1892. When I saw Clarke's name in "Nature" I and Mitten both thought it was a misprint, but as it stands in the Linn. Proc. I suppose there is something in it. If Mr Clarke did find it, at what date was it?

Yours very truly Alfred R. Wallace.