WCP3717

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

Sept^r. 16th. 1908

B. Daydon Jackson Esq.²

Dear D^r Jackson

Pray excuse me troubling you again for a little information. In the Biographical Part of Martius’ Flora of Brazil,³ a detailed List of Spruce's⁴ writings is given — and those in the "Journal of Botany"⁵ are entered under two heads — "Botanical Excursions in the Amazon" in Vols. II. III. & IV. and "Journal of a Voyage up the Amazon and Rio Negro" in vols. V. to IX.

The first set I know are in letters to Sir William Hooker⁶ — I have copies of [2] all Spruce's letters to Sir W. Hooker preserved at Kew (and also of those to Mr. Bentham⁷). What I wish to know is, whether the accounts of Spruce's journeys in V to IX — especially those in East Peru. in vols. VIII and IX. are also really the letters to Sir W. Hooker or to Mr. Bentham. All my copies of letters from Tarapoto (E. Peru) are to Mr. Bentham, and it will be sufficient if you will look at vol. VIII pp. 177-81. and vol. IX. pp. 310-311 — and tell me what they really are.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[3] Extracts sent.⁸