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WCP3541

Letter (WCP3541.3437)

[1]

27 Sep [1909]1

My dear Dr Wallace

Mr Maiden2 has furnished me 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 means 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 Deane3 [signature]

1
This is in reply to ARW’s letter sent 30 August 1909. See WCP3542. https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3542
2
Maiden, Joseph Henry (1859-1925). Director of the Botanic Gardens and New South Wales Government Botanist 1896. Founder of the National Herbarium, Sydney 1901.
3
Deane, Henry (1847-1924). British-born Australian engineer and scientist, son of chemist Henry Deane and Jemima Dean (née Elliott).

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3541.3437)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Congerton, John [2019-02-21] Transcription checked by Congerton, John [2019-02-21] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3541,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3541