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Jan[uar]y. 10. 1881

Dear Mr. Wallace

I must thank you for your very kind letter which I need hardly say is more than satisfactory to me.

I wish we could do more at Kew in the way of summarizing results. But the whole of our staff is so hardworked that no one finds time for the higher [2] kind of scientific work.

My own department is that of correspondence and I do the little I can in urging my colleagues to publish at once notices of facts of importance which are revealed by new collections. My excellent friend Baker has published some very valuable notes of this kind at my [3] instigation in Nature[.]

You may like to make a private note to the following effect on p. 413 of Island Life

Agauria — Central africa

Nat[ure]. Oct[ober]. 21. [18]80 p. 586

Madagascar

Nat[ure].² Dec[ember] 9. [18]80 p.126

I called with Sir John Lubbock yesterday on Mr. Darwin and heard your good news in which everyone must rejoice and congratulate not so much [4] you as the Prime Minister.

I saw a letter ^{on Saturday} from Mr Watson in which he mentioned that the form called Helianthemum Breweri (of which you must be a little weary) undoubtedly occurred in Ireland[.]

Mr. Darwin talked to me about your views on mountain floras.³ I confess I rather sympathized with his objections.

You will be sorry to hear that Mr Watson is extremely ill.

Yours Very Truly | W. T. Thiselton Dyer [signature]