WCP2306

Letter (WCP2306.2196)

[1]

18 Aug. 1874

My Dear Sir,

I found y[ou]r letter of the 9th. inst.1 on my return from a holiday in the north2 on Saturday even[in]g. —

The best "[2 words illeg.]" of Galapagos vegetation you will find I think in N. J. Andersson's3 Memoirs. — In the Linnaea, vol. XXX1. [2] (1861-62) p. 571.4 is a general essay upon it. His fuller memoir. with descriptions, plates etc.[?] forms part of the Report on the Nat. Hist[or]y. of the [one word crossed out] "Eugeniès" expedition5. I am not quite sure[?] if this were published separate[l]y or as part of the 4to[?] News. of The Stockholm Acad[emy]6: [3]7 I imagine the report in the "Linnaea"8 will answer y[ou]r purpose.

beg truly[?] yours | D Oliver [signature]

1
inst.: abbreviation of the latin instante mense, this month, i.e. 9th August.
2
Daniel Oliver was from the north of England, born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He also collected plant specimens from Northumberland, Durham and Cumberland. Herbaria United <http://herbariaunited.org/collector/16827/> [accessed 20 March 2015].
3
Andersson, Nils Johan (1821-1880). Swedish botanist and traveller
4
Andersson, N.J. (1861-1862) Ueber Die Vegetation der Galapagos-Inseln, Linnaea, vol. XXXI, pp. 571-631. Darwin Foundation. <http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/15844/> [accessed 26 March 2015]. Wallace based his statements on the Galapagos Islands on this and Sir Joseph Hooker's Memoirs in his book This Island Life. Wallace, A. R. (1892). Island Life, (2nd edition), Macmillan, London and New York. i-xx, 1-563 [p.287].
5
In 1851 Andersson was a member of the first Swedish expedition to circumnavigate the world, as botanist aboard the HMS Eugenies
6
Andersson, N.J. (1855) Om Galápagos Öarnes Vegetation. In Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien Handl., Stockholm: 61-256. Darwin Foundation. <http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/15844/> [accessed 26 March 2015].
7
Text in another hand in the top right corner reads "282".
8
The Linnaea is a nineteenth-century German periodical.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2306.2196)]

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Transcribed by Ghosh, Susan [2015-04-08] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-04-08] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP2306,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2306