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WCP6306

Letter (WCP6306.7301)

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Parkstone, Dorset

Dec[embe]r 7th 1899

W.B. Hemsley Esq.

Dear Mr. Hemsley

My friend Mrs. Fisher1 (author of the Short History of Nat[ural]. Science)2 is writing a book to popularize the recent discoveries on fertilisation & of Briteila[?] Plants

She has written to me to tell her where she can find a figure (crl?)[?] of the lichen Claydonia cornucopioides. I find in London (Enc. Pl.) a reference to Eng.Bot. for C. coccifera Achs[?] of which C. cornucopiodes is there given as a variety, not then figured. To save you trouble I enclose a directed P.card on which I shall be obliged if you can give the reference wanted.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Fisher, Arabella Burton (née Buckley) (1840-1929). English writer and science educator.
2
Buckley, Arabella (1876) A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day: For the use of Schools and Young Persons. D. Appleton and Company.New York.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6306.7301)]

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Transcribed by Hall, Sophia [2015-03-16] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-03-16] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP6306,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6306