WCP5535

Letter (WCP5535.6293)

[1]1

THE CAMP,

NEAR SUNNINGDALE.

[BERKSHIRE]

July 18 1911

My dear Prain2

Mrs Bourne promised you a set of her balsams3 when returned, or to be returned, named.

I have retained drawings of the floral organs of them to be attached to the specimens when we get them.

I am reading Wallace’s "The World of Life"4; it is fascinating. Also "The West in the East, from an "American point of view"5 — the clearest picture of India I have seen.

Ever affectionately y[ou]rs | Jos[eph]. D Hooker. [signature]

Many thanks for the copies of No. 5 of the Bulletin6.

[2]7 The impatiens8 were received on December 14, last year with other plants and we were then requested to keep them until Mrs. Bourne would call and decide what she would give us. The balsams were sent to Sir Joseph who named them and returned them to Kew on March, 22. He was then informed that they would be sent to him again, as soon as Mrs. Bourne had actually presented them to him. As she has, however, not yet come the plants are still in our keep[ing]. This is, how matters stand.

19. 7. 11

O. S.

1
Page numbered 100 in pencil in top RH corner
2
Prain, David (1857-1944) Scottish physician and botanist, appointed Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1905.
3
Members of the family Balsaminaceae, which includes the genus Impatiens (see Endnote 9).
4
Wallace, A. R. (1910) The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose London, Chapman & Hall.
5

Collier, P. (1911) The West in the East from an American Point of View London, Duckworth & Co.

6.

6
Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew), Vol. 1911, No. 5. The Kew Bulletin is a peer-reviewed journal of plant and fungal taxonomy, published quarterly by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
7
The page is stamped "88" vertically in the top LH margin. The text on this page is in a different hand to that on the first page and signed "O.S."
8
Genus of flowering plants of the family Balsaminaceae.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2015-06-18] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-06-18] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP5535,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5535