WCP3815

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Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill,

Croydon.

Dec^r. 21st 1879

Dear Sir Joseph Hooker¹

I am sorry to have to inform you that notwithstanding I made a good deal of interest with them the Corporation of London will not have me for Superintendent of Epping Forest.

I am just completing a book on Insular Faunas & Floras,² & I think I have hit upon the true solution of the anomalous relations of the New Zealand flora to that of Australia. I presume that the additions to the floras of those [2] Countries since you wrote your two invaluable "Introductory Essays"³ have made no essential difference in their relations to each other & the surrounding countries, & that I may still take all the general statements therein given as substantially correct.

Writing you the Compliments of the season.

I remain | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Sir Joseph Hooker, K. C. S. I.⁴ &c.