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April 11 1909*1
THE CAMP,
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.*2
My dear Stapf*3
A few days ago I received from Meebold*4 a magnificent collection of Balsams collected by him in Munnipore & The Ghats of Mysore; most of them with both flowers & ripe fruits. There are upwards of 60 sheets & certainly at least 50 species, not a few quite new to me. I am dissecting the flowers & fruit of every one, but for which identification is impossible. Of course I sketch & preserve the dissections for Herb[arium] Kew.
Kindly ask the Director*5 to let me have say 80 sheets of mounting paper, & 30 large & 30 medium-sized capsules, (I have plenty of the small size.)
Ever y[ou]r | Jos D Hooker [signature]
April 11 1909*1
THE CAMP,
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.*2
My dear Stapf*3
A few days ago I received from Meebold*4 a magnificent collection of Balsams collected by him in Munnipore & The Ghats of Mysore; most of them with both flowers & ripe fruits. There are upwards of 60 sheets & certainly at least 50 species, not a few quite new to me. I am dissecting the flowers & fruit of every one, but for which identification is impossible. Of course I sketch & preserve the dissections for Herb[arium] Kew.
Kindly ask the Director*5 to let me have say 80 sheets of mounting paper, & 30 large & 30 medium-sized capsules, (I have plenty of the small size.)
Ever y[ou]r | Jos D Hooker [signature]
1. A note in Hooker's hand records that he "repl[ied] 14.4.09".
2. The printed words "TELEGRAMS, WINDLESHAM." appear at an angle on the left hand side of the paper.
3. Otto Stapf (1857--1933). Austrian botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. He published the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father. Stapf moved to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920 and became a British citizen in 1905. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1927. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
4. Alfred Karl Meebold (1863 --1952), German botanist.
5. Lieut-Col David Prain (1857--1944); Director of Kew, 1905--1922.
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