WCP2005

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30, Kensington Square, W.

Mar[ch] 15. [19]05

Dear Mr Wallace

I am glad you are not disturbed by Jhering¹[.] As I have translated a bit more I send it — dont [sic] trouble to acknowledge it[.]

The man I wrote to who is a first rate German system artist working at Kew¹ says Ihering's (or rather Jhering) [sic] botany is sound, & that he only makes the few slips to be expected from a man working away from big libraries and Herbariums.

I felt somehow that he does not take a naturalists [sic] view of the problem.

He claims that he is the first to work the freshwater plants; his fact about Sagittaria² sounds a striking one. see p[.] 45 of my abstract.

Yours v[er]y truly | Francis Darwin³ [signature]

I think it is clear that Engler⁴ is on your side