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Aug. 1. 1906

Dear Dr. Wallace

There is no Escallonia in North America, although there are organ mountains.

E. organensis, Gardn, in Hook. &c Pl. t. 514, is a native of the organ Mts, Brazil, having been found there near the summit. See Gardners' Travels ed. 2. p. 403.¹ It was formerly in cultivation in the Temperate House [2] but has disappeared.

With regard to Spruce's letters. It is against the rules to lend them out, but the Director would give every facility for copying them.

I may tell you they are very numerous, upwards of 100 to Mr Bentham² and very diffuse, containing much that is not worth reproducing; but only the Editor could decide what to omit. I will [3] endeavour to get an estimate of what it wd. cost to copy them.

As you are doubtless aware, many extracts* were published in Hooker's Journals.³ I find references to nearly forty places. Of course these wd be the most interesting parts. Sifting the others would be a heavy task.

Yours truly | W. Botting Hemsley⁴ [signature]

* vols. ii & iii. Kew Journ. Bot. contain 90 pages of extracts.⁵