WCP5546

Letter (WCP5546.6304)

[1]

William Fawcett,

Director.1

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC GARDENS & PLANTATIONS

Gordon Town P.O., Jamaica

23 Nov.[ember] 18962

Dear Dyer,

I don't think there is anything to write to you about this mail except to thank you for the box of seeds of Borassus flabelliformis which is very acceptable.

A. R. Wallace wrote asking for a few mosses for his friend Mitten3. So we collected some, & sent them with a duplicate set to Berlin. The latter were handed over to Dr. C. Müller,4 who sends a list of determinations with 20 new species. Mitten [2] also sends a list through Wallace, noting many new species, but recognising some of Müller's as old species.

It is so encouraging that we will collect more, & when names are published, perhaps you will care to have a set of the new species.

I have discovered a place where Equisetum giganteum grows in abundance at an altitude of probably about 1,500 feet. I will send you more roots of it in the spring.

Very truly yours | H. Fawcett [signature]5

1
Written in another hand diagonally in top left corner: "J. G. B. 12/12/96" and in red ink "Ans[were]d. 14/XII 96".
2
Beneath the date is the stamp of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew bearing the date "11. Dec. 96".
3
Mitten, William (1819-1906). English chemist and botanist
4
Müller, Carl. German bryologist.
5
Written in another hand beneath the sender's signature: "We should like to have specimens of the mosses J. G. B.".

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP5546.6304)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Powell, Jane [2015-06-17] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-06-17] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP5546,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5546