WCP6203

Letter (WCP6203.7178)

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MUSEU GOELDI

(MUSEU PARAENSE DE HISTORIA NATURAL E ETNOGRAPHIA),

399 — CAIXA POSTAL — 399

PARA’ — (BRAZIL)

Parà

27 II 1908.

D[octo]r. Alfred R. Wallace

Dear Sir,

By the last steamer I have sent you the 3[r]d and 4th Decades of my "Arboretum Amazonicum"2, which is all that has been issued since 1900. I should be very happy if some of my pictures had the honour of figuring in the "Journals & Letters of D[octo]r. Richard Spruce["]3,4, for whom I have a very great admiration. For some time I had the intention to publish, in our "Boletin"5, an article on Spruce, but I had so many other things to do that I was not yet able to realise my intention. After the issuance of the ["]Journals and Letters" I shall have a good opportunity to do it and to show to the Amazonian people how much this great naturalist has contributed to make known the botanical treasures of this region. Very anxious to see the publication of your work

I am sincerely | yours | D[octo]r. J. Huber6 [signature]

1
The word "Ans[were]d" is written in ink in the top LH corner of the page.
2
Huber, J (1900- ) Arboretum Amazonicum : iconographia dos mais importantes vegetaes espontaneos e cultivados da região amazonica. 1-5. decada. Pará, Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia.
3
Spruce, Richard (1817-1893) English botanist and explorer. 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.
4
Spruce, R. (1908) Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes: being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864, 2 vols. London, Macmillan. (Edited and condensed by A. R. Wallace).
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Boletin de Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia, Pará, Brazil.
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Huber, Jaques (1867-1914) Swiss-Brazilian botanist who did pioneering work on the flora of the Amazon from 1895 until his death. He created and organized the herbarium and arboretum in Belém, Brazil, and was director of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi from 1907 until he died.

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

Please cite as “WCP6203,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6203