WCP3806

Letter (WCP3806.3723)

[1]1

9. St. Mark’s Crescent,

Regent’s Park. N.W.

Nov[embe]r 15th 1866

Dear Hooker

As I have a bad cold and hoarseness I cannot come to the Linnean2 tonight, and cannot come over to Kew3 till next week when I will try to do so.

I am glad to hear the Leaf Insects are out at last.4 I see Mr. Woodbury5 says they are very restless the first ten days but that afterwards they become [2] motionless & only feed.

I have no doubt if you have put them on Guava6 or Eugenia7 plants, that some of them will survive. Many thanks for your care of them. I will come as early as I can next week to see them.

Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
ARW’s residence from March 1865-6/20 July 1867 and early July 1868-22 March 1870.
2
The Linnean Society of London, founded in 1788, promoted the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history. Wallace became a fellow in 1872.
3
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
4
In a 3 May 1866 letter [WCP3805_L3722], Wallace asked Hooker if he would be interested in rearing ‘two species of Leaf insects (Phyllium)’ at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Phyllium is a genus of leaf insects found in the Indian subcontinent through to Southeast Asia and Australasia.
5
Possibly Woodbury, Thomas White (1818-1871). British beekeeper who introduced movable-frame beekeeping into Britain. Wrote incognito as "a Devonshire Beekeeper".
6
Psidium guajava, a species of fruit-bearing plant native to Central and South America, the West Indies, Mexico, and some regions of the southern United States
7
An obsolete genus name for the rose apple (Syzygium jambos), a fruit-bearing tree of Southeast Asia.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP3806.3723)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2013-04-15] Transcription checked by Barton, Michael [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP3806,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 7 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3806