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TELEGRAMS
WINDLESHAM
Feb 4 1909
THE CAMP,
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.
My Dear Stapf,*1
The balsam arrived this morning & I have been examining it all day. It is one of those species with so membranous & at the same time soft textured petals that are most difficult to lay out. It is nearest I. Curtisii Hof.[?] differing in the leaves not being glaucous beneath, in the most minute sepals etc. I propose to call it I.Longii or longiana & I return the seeds for sowing having kept enough for the Herbarium.
Has Kew Library the Flore génerale de l'Indo-Chine?*2 I do not find it in the Library Catalogue not knowing the author's name. I
TELEGRAMS
WINDLESHAM
Feb 4 1909
THE CAMP,
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.
My Dear Stapf,*1
The balsam arrived this morning & I have been examining it all day. It is one of those species with so membranous & at the same time soft textured petals that are most difficult to lay out. It is nearest I. Curtisii Hof.[?] differing in the leaves not being glaucous beneath, in the most minute sepals etc. I propose to call it I.Longii or longiana & I return the seeds for sowing having kept enough for the Herbarium.
Has Kew Library the Flore génerale de l'Indo-Chine?*2 I do not find it in the Library Catalogue not knowing the author's name. I
must see it to ascertain the author's methods, as I am bound to describe the Indo-Chinese Balsams from that work -- fascicule V is under press, as Gagnepain*3 Reports.
I am well pleased with the distribution of the Icones*4 & Balsam paper.
Ever sincerely yours | Joseph.D.Hooker.[signature]
1. Otto Stapf (1857--1933). Stapf was born in Austria, studied and then taught Botany at the University of Vienna. He made a nine-month-long botanical expedition to Persia in 1885, then in 1890 came to Kew. From 1891 he was Assistant in the Herbarium of which he was Keeper from 1909 to 1922. He became a British citizen in 1905, was elected FRS in 1908 and was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1927.
2. An asterisk, inserted in front of this title, refers to a note in another hand on page 3: 'under Lecomte.. Tome 1. Fasc.1: ' loaned to Sir Joseph. 5.ii.09'. Flore génerale de l'Indo-Chine.' is underlined in blue pencil and an adjacent marginal annotation in red reass H.288/89as are the words' seeds for sowing' in the previous paragraph where a blue tick has also been added in the margin.
3. Francois Gagnepain (1866--1952), Deputy Director of Botany at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, was the main contributor to the first volume of Flore génerale de l'Indo-Chine. Lecomte, Paul Henri (1856--1934) (see note 2 above) was chief editor of the first volume of Flore génerale de l'Indo-Chine, Paris 1907. He was associated with the publication of subsequent volumes of this work until his death.
4. Icones Plantarum, initiated by Sir William Jackson Hooker. The illustrations are drawn from herbarium specimens of Hooker's herbarium, and subsequently the herbarium of Kew Gardens. W. Hooker was the author of the first ten volumes, produced 1837--1854, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, was responsible for Volumes X-XIX (most of Series III). Daniel Oliver was the editor of Volumes XX-XXIV. His successor was William Turner Thiselton-Dyer. The series now comprises forty volumes.
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