WCP3730

Letter (WCP3730.3637)

[1]

Old Orchard,1

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

July 25th. 1910

J.S. Gamble Esq. F.R.S.

Dear Sir

I return the paper by M. Bois,2 which does not give much information.

Prof. Yapp3 of Aberystwith [sic] has sent me some photos. of the Malayan Forest, which I should like to print if I could get the names of the more conspicuous of the plants represented. I have written to him, to ask for these [2] but having had no reply for ten days am afraid he may be away from home. For the same reason I do not send them to you, but if you are at home & think you could name some of them (genus or nat[ural]. order only would do) — I will send them for your inspection.

I have just obtained a copy of Beccari's4 book on Borneo, & find that he afterwards spent ten years in New Guinea, [3] the Moluccas, Celebes, & Java. Do you know if he has published any general account of the botany of these countries — and if there is any summary of it in English or French?

Celebes I should particularly like to have some statistics of what is known.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace. [signature]

1
"19", encircled, written at the top centre of page 1, possibly in another hand.
2
Possibly Désiré Georges Jean Marie Bois, (1856-1946), French horticulturist and collector in Indonesia. The paper may have been Bois' 'Voyage en Indo-Chine et à Java' published in the Bulletin du Muséum d'historie naturelle. 9(5): 251-254, 1903.
3
Richard Henry Yapp, (1871-1929) Professor of botany at the University of Aberystwyth, 1904-1914, botanist on the Cambridge expedition to the Malay States 1899-1900.
4
Odoardo Beccari, (1843-1920), Italian naturalist. His book is Nelle foreste di Borneo, viaggi e ricerche di un naturalista. Firenze, 1902, or possibly the English translation; Wandering in the great forests of Borneo. Travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. London, [s.n.] 1904.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3730.3637)]

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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 “WCP3730,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3730