WCP2005

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30, KENSINGTON SQUARE, W.

Mar 15. 05

Dear M^r Wallace

I am glad you are not disturbed by Ihering[.]² 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 systemartist working at Kew says Ihering's (or rather Jhering) [sic] botany is sound, & that he only makes the few slips to be expected from a man [2] working away from big libraries and Herbariums.

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

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

Yours vy truly | Francis Darwin³ [signature]

I think it is clear that Engler⁴ is on your side