WCP3541

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27 Sep [1 word illeg.]

My Dear Dr Wallace

Mr Maiden has furnished us with a list showing numbers of Phanerogams for each Australian State. I know that the Queensland <record> is below yours.

Maiden shows the Northern Territory (& South Australia) separate but Northern Australia includes both tropical and temperate. I do not think there is any dream of separating them.

I am sorry to have been so long in forwarding this, but I am sending it to you as soon as I received it.

Mr Maiden says he has deducted from the Flora of New South Wales the number of species from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. [2]

Mr Maiden's list is as follows:

State	Up to 1889	up to August 1910
Tasmania	1029	1084
Victoria	1894	2087
S Australia	1892	2038
N S Wales	3131	3522
Queensland	3753	4280
W Australia	3560	4195
N. Australia	1956	2056
In all Australia	8839	10427

With kind regards | Yours very faithfully | H Deane [signature]