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WCP2505

Letter (WCP2505.2395)

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ROYAL GARDENS KEW

DIRECTOR

24. IV. 12.

Dear Sir

The Director2 requests me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April 21st.3 enclosing flowers of a Beschorneria. We find the flowers are not those of B. Wrightii which has very hairy flowers but probably belong to B. bracteata, Jacobi, a species figured in The Botanical Magazine X. 6641.4 —

As to your suggested treatment of the Doryanthes our Curator thinks it may not be very wise. — we are sorry that it is now too late to send you any Alpine plants [2] but we could no doubt send you some in the autumn should you wish to have some then and if you will write again we will do our best to help you[.]

I am | yours very truly | Arthur W Hill5 [signature] | Asst. Director

Dr A. R. Wallace OM &c.

Old Orchard

Broadstone

Dorset

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1
In ARW’s handwriting, “Offer of Alpine Plants in Autumn”.
2
Prain, David (1857-1944). Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden. Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1905-1922.
4
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1882. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew. London: L. Reeve & Co.
5
Hill, Arthur William (1875-1941). British botanist and taxonomist; Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1922-1941.
6
In unknown handwriting, “Arthur W Hill”.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2505.2395)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Hamburger, Esther [2015-03-18] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-03-18] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2505,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2505