WCP3729

Letter (WCP3729.3636)

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne1

June 12th 1910

Dear Mr. Gamble

I find that Sir Jos[eph]. Hooker2 in his sketch of Flora of B[ritish]. India3, gives the sequence of 10 nat[ural]. orders for the Malay Peninsula (given him by Ridley).4 You gave me the first four with the numbers of the species. Can you give me these numbers (approximately) for the other six? And will not Palmae come in, as he says there are 142 species, & p. 54 [2] he gives (8)5 Melastomace6 [sic] as having 136 sp[ecies]. — while the Palms with 142 sp[ecies]. do not appear at all in the sequence of ten.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
"18" written in the centre of the top edge of page one, possibly in another hand.
2
Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817-1911), botanist, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1865-1885.
3
Hooker, Joseph Dalton, A Sketch of the Flora of British India, (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1904) pp. 50-52.
4
Ridley, Henry Nicholas, 1855 -1956, English botanist and geologist, first Scientific Director (1888-1911) of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
5
Illegible mark above "(8)".
6
Melastomataceae (alternatively Melastomaceae) is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics.

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Transcribed by Lucas, Paula [2014-02-03] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-02-03] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP3729,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3729