WCP3912

Letter (WCP3912.3832)

[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne

August 2nd. 1907

My dear Sir Joseph1

Thanks for your information about the paper with letter from Spruce2. I will write to the Sec[retar]y. of the Society asking for a copy which I have no doubt they will send me. I need not therefore (I hope) trouble you to send yours.

I have been delayed by an inflamed eye for about a month & also by some other work, but I have get over [2] the most difficult parts, & have also done a rather interesting chapter on "Tarapoto"3 out of very scanty materials.

The remainder— the Andean portions—will be mainly letters, & portions of his published Reports & papers to the Geog[raphic]. Soc[iety]. &c.

Ecuador seems still the last known part of S. America. Even at the Geog[raphic]. Soc[iety]. they have not a single Photographa relating to Spruce's favorite district—[3] Mt. Tunguragua4, Banos &c..

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Sir. Joseph Hooker F.R.S. &c.

1
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 — 1911), British botanist and Explorer, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2
Richard Spruce (1817 — 1893), English botanist and explorer who spent 15 years exploring the Amazon, was the first European to visit many places and catalog species.
3
Tarapoto, city in Northern Peru, known as the "City of Palms"
4
Mt. Tunguragua, likely refers to Mt. Tungurahua, an active stratovolcano in Ecuador.

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Transcription (WCP3912.4274)

[1]

BROADSTONE, WIMBORNE.

August 2nd, 1907.

My dear Sir Joseph

Thanks for you information about the paper with letter from Spruce. I will write to the Secy. of the Society asking for a copy which I have no doubt they will send me. I need not therefore (I hope) trouble you to send yours.

I have been delayed by an inflamed eye for about a month and also by some other work, but I have got over the most difficult parts, and have also done a rather interesting chapter on "Tarapoto" out of very scanty materials. The remainder — the Andean portions — will be mainly letters, and portions of his published Reports and papers to the Geog. Soc. &c.

Ecuador seems still the least known part of S.America. Even at the Geog. Soc. they have not a single Photograph relating to Spruce's favourite district,— Mt. Tunguragua, Banos, &c.

Yours very truly, | ALFRED R. WALLACE

Sir Joseph Hooker, F.R.S. &c.

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Status: Draft transcription [Transcription (WCP3912.4274)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Congerton, John [2019-12-17]

Please cite as “WCP3912,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3912