WCP3817

Letter (WCP3817.3735)

[1]

Pen-y-Bryn1, St. Peter’s Road, Croydon.

July 25th. 1880

My dear Sir Joseph Hooker2

I send herewith my chapters on the Flora of New Zealand3 &c. & also the preceeding[sic] Chapter on the Zoology, because it contains a Map referred to subsequently & also supports the general argument in case you can find time to glance through it.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
ARW referred to the house he rented between 1880 and May 1881 as "Pen-y-Bryn". The house would later be numbered 44.
2
Great 19th century British botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, KCB, FRS (1817 — 1911). Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and one of Charles Darwin’s closest friends. Hooker, along with Charles Lyell, played a vital role in the relatively peaceful co-publication of Darwin and Wallace’s papers on the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1858.
3
The chapter was likely from ARW’s Island Life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. Published in 1880 and dedicated to Hooker, Island life was a sequel to ARW’s 1876 text The Geographic Distribution of Animals. When published, Island Life did indeed contain chapter XXII entitled "The Flora of New Zealand: Its Affinities and Probable Origin".

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3817.3735)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Clerx, William [2012-08-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP3817,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3817