[1]1
THE CAMP,
SUNNINGDALE.
Fe[bruar]y 11th 1905
My dear Wallace
I have not changed my opinion & you may quote the two passages indicated in my letter: nor have I seen any controversion [sic] of the view & questions of late years; but to tell you the truth I have not of late kept up my botanical reading, except for India.
Dyer2 you know has adopted our view, in a paper read, if I remember aright, to the Geographical Society,3 some years ago.
Of course, there has been sporadic migration from South to North, here [2] these, as of the Malayan types all along the base of the Himalaya — but that is due to the disturbing influence of the Himalaya, offering the facilities of it’s [sic] hot humid lower ranges for the invasion of tropical types.
Have you seen a paper by a Mr Cockayne4 in Trans[actions]. [of the] N[ew] Zeal[an]d. Institute Vol[ume]. XXXVI? on the flora of the Southern Island of New Zealand.5 It is full of matter interesting to us, especially the accounts of the Rata forest in [the] Auckland Islands,6 which seem to indicate an ancient land connection with New Zealand & is by far the most cogent botanical evidence known to me of the replacement of land [3]7 by deep ocean. I can lend you the paper (See p[age]. 312)[.]
I am glad to hear that you enjoy your years & can think & work. I keep up a little botany by working up difficult genera of the Kew Herbarium.8 I am now at Impatiens9 & have been for 4 years now. The local aggregation of the species: India is quite unintelligable [sic]; no doubt all due to Insect agency.
I keep well except for transient attacks of Eczema that keep my legs & sometimes arms bandaged.
Ever sincerely Y[ou]rs | J D Hooker.10 [signature]
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