WCP6080

Letter (WCP6080.7030)

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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS,

KEW, SURREY.

All communications should be addressed to

THE DIRECTOR,

Quoting the following number:—

D.291

24th January, 1934.

Dear Sir,

I thank you for your letter of the 19th January regarding the small notebook of Richard Spruce2 containing a "List of Botanical Excursions, June 19, 1841 — April 30, 1863." We have made a note that you are presenting this book to the Linnean Society3 in case we may wish to refer to it at any time.

Yours faithfully, | Arthur Hill [signature]

Director.

W. G. Wallace, Esq[uire].,

Doveshill,

Ensbury Park,

Bournemouth.

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The letter is typewritten and signed by the author in ink. The page is numbered [WP16/2/57] in pencil in the top RH corner.

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Spruce, Richard (1817-1893) English botanist and explorer of the Amazon region. In 1849 he followed ARW and Henry Walter Bates to the Amazon Basin, collecting more than 30,000 plant specimens there and in the Andes during the next 14 years.
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Society founded in 1788 for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history, and named in honour of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP6080,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6080