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WCP3729

Letter (WCP3729.3636)

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

June 12th. 1910

Dear Mr. Gamble1

I find that Sir Jos. Hooker2 in his sketch of Flora of B[ritish]. India,3 gives the sequence of 10 nat. 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)no Melastomace as having 136 sp. — while the Palms with 142 sp. do not appear at all in the sequence of ten.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Gamble, James Sykes (1847-1925). British botanist.
2
Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817-1911). British botanist and explorer. Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1865-85. President of the Royal Society 1873-78.
3
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1904. A Sketch of the Flora of British India. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode.
4
Ridley, Henry Nicholas (1855-1956). British economic botanist. Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore.

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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] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3729,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3729