WCP6859

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Feb[ruary]. 22 1951

The Secretary Linn[ean]. Soc[iety]².

Dear Sir

In Jan[uary]. 1934 I presented the Linnean Soc[iety]. with a M[anu]S[cript]. diary of Richard Spruce³. I have just found another M[anu].S[cript]. of his on "The Acclimatisation of Europeans in Tropical America"[.] Please keep it if you think it suitable for your library or, if not, hand it on to some other Society to whom the subject is more appropriate. It is an interesting example ^{good excellent illustration} of Spruce’s interest in Human being[s] as was as [sic] in botany and. I also enclose a few letters written by my father to his father-in-law, W[illia]^m. Mitten⁴ A[ssociate]. [of the] L[innean]. S[ociety].⁵ as they are mainly botanical they⁶have little personal interest to his family. Perhaps they you would like to add them to your collection of M[anu]S[cript].S.