[1]1
30, Kensington Square, W.
(1903)
Dear Mr Wallace
The enclosed letters give all the information I can get about Island Life2. I have copied out the references and I shall be glad to look them up & give you an idea whether they are worth your reading. But perhaps you [2] will prefer to send for them "right away[.]" I have added a note or two to Engler's3 letter as I had been looking into his "Versuch &e4[.]"
Yours v[er]y truly | Francis Darwin5 [signature]
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Dahlem Steglitz
ber[?] Berlin
8. Febr. 1905
Dear Sir and Colleague
The migration of northern forms to the Southern hemisphere has been already treated by Sir Joseph Hooker in his Introductory Essay to the Flora of Tasmania and I have bared[?] my discussion in my Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der Pflanzenwelt II (Leipzing 1882)1 p 93ff, * on special studies in the Herbariums
[2]Wallace "Island Life" is very often quoted for different[?] questions in Thering's[?] paper "Das [illeg.] tropische Florengeschichte["] in Engler: Botan. Tahitischer Vol XVIII Berblatt No 42 (1893). In general the german phytogeographers have neved never doubted, that boreal forms have gone to the Southern hemisphere.
A general citation[?] of Wallace, Island Life is to be found in Drude, Handbuch der Pflanzengeographie, Stuttgart 1890 p.127, but there is not any special discussion of the question.
To morrow I read a paper in our Academy on the relations between tropical Africa and America and I think that I can send you the paper in 10 days. I am, with great respect | Yours faithfully | A Engler. [signature]
[3]About German Ref. to Island Life — & N. to S. plant-dispersal
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[1]1
Hanover House,
The Green,
Kew.
9. 2. [19]05
Dear Professor Darwin,
Many thanks for your kind note. I shall be very much pleased to see you here at Kew. I hope you will come soon. Wallace's Island Life was noticed extensively in Just's Bot. Jahres Bericht, 1880, II, p.355. Almost a page is devoted to his views on distribution given in Ch. XXIII; but they are [2] merely stated, not criticised. Another, but very short and general notice, may be found in O. Drude's "Bericht über die Fortschritte i.d. Geographie der Pflanzen (1880-81)," p.134, published in Brehm's Geographisches Jahrbuch for 1882(?). That is all I recollect for the moment.
Yours very truly | Otto Stapf [signature]
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