Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon
Dec[embe]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 & Floras2, & 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.I. J &c.
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