WCP6939

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Broadstone, Wimborne.

Jan^y 23rd. 1908

Dear Mr. Slater

I am sorry to trouble you again; but will you please give me the date of Spruce's letter to Bruck — the copy of which you lent me & I returned the other day without noting it.

Also, I see in your "Account of the Mosses &c. of N. Yorkshire" — you give several mosses, with Spruce's name as collector — in 1837 1838 and 1839 — and many more in 1841 and 1842 — (besides many more with no dates) Does this mean [2] that these ^dated species were ^then noted by Spruce in the distict for the first time, and that he then correctly named them?

Does the Mss. List ^{dated 1837} of the Flora of the Malton District, which Mr Stabler says in his "Obit. Notice" — that you possess, include any Mosses?

Replies to these queries will oblige.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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P.S. I presume it was Ibbotson who gave Spruce his first taste for botany — Do you know if Ibbotson published anything on plants earlier than Spruce?

In the acct. of the Yorkshire Phil. Soc. Herbarium he is said to have published several articles ¹<in> the Phytologist, Flora of Yorkshire &c. Can you give me the dates of the earliest of them [?] I want these details for the "Biographical Introduction"— | A.R.W. [4]

Date of Bruck's letter 1843

Books sent

Cop. of — Cephalozia 1 copy

Spruces Pyrenees list & 2 books

do — Teesdale list &

New ^British mosses for [illeg.]

8 <equatorial> Palm

Insect Migrations

Review By — Voyage of R.Spruce

Lejeune Holtin[?] in one book

Spruces work in one book ²

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<II?> Baines' Flora of Yorkshire

Sent also list of notes &c published in Phytologist of <Mr> Spruces & Ibbotsons work.