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TELEGRAMS, WINDLESHAM.
THE CAMP,*1
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.
Nov[ember] 8 1909
My dear Stapf*2
You inform me (15.X.09) that Meebold's*3 Impatiens have arrived & have been handed over to Mr Drummond*4 who has the remainder of the collection.
I have here the Set specimens of his collection which was sorted out for Kew at Calcutta & have examined all very carefully. They include several new species which I cannot describe without better specimens; on which account I suggested his sending me his whole Indian
TELEGRAMS, WINDLESHAM.
THE CAMP,*1
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.
Nov[ember] 8 1909
My dear Stapf*2
You inform me (15.X.09) that Meebold's*3 Impatiens have arrived & have been handed over to Mr Drummond*4 who has the remainder of the collection.
I have here the Set specimens of his collection which was sorted out for Kew at Calcutta & have examined all very carefully. They include several new species which I cannot describe without better specimens; on which account I suggested his sending me his whole Indian
collection of Impatiens so that I might complete my description & name the whole authoritatively for him. I should therefore be glad to have all Meebold's Balsams sent to me, when I will attend to them at once.
I have now nearly got through the African Balsams sent [(]"for my gratification!) by Lecomte.*5 They are to a great extent bad or badly dried specimens & as far us as I can remember very different from what we had at Kew where I examined the latter now some years ago. I shall do nothing
more to them till I have done Meebold's, which will I know take some weeks for I must reanalyse & draw most of them to make sure of my own work & give him the names power to utilize his own.
Ever sincerely y[ou]rs | Jos D Hooker [signature]
P.S. I shall be glad of some more paper capsules, 3 sizes.
*6 Wrote that I will write again as soon as I hear from Mr Drummond about Meebold's Impatiens. Mr Bowle's*7 I[mpatiens] Roylei var[iety] 5 feet high, no more part[iculars] known. Caps[ules] as desired in separate box. 10.XI.09 O[tto] S[tapf]
1. Joseph Hooker had a residence built in Sunningdale, Berkshire called 'The Camp'. Completed in 1882 he lived there full time, with his second wife Hyacinth and their family, after retiring from RBG Kew in 1885.
2. Otto Stapf FRS (1852--1933). Austrian botanist and taxonomist. He moved to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1890, becoming keeper of the Herbarium in 1909--1920.
3. Alfred Karl Meebold (1863--1952). Botanist, author and anthroposophist. A prolific traveller, he saw many continents and countries, collecting plants in India, Southern Africa, Polynesia, the Antipodes and Europe.
4. James Ramsay Drummond (1851--1921). Civil servant in India, and amateur botanist. On his return to England he continued his botanical work at Kew.
5. Paul Henri Lecomte (1856--1934). French botanist.
6. The remaining passage was added by Otto Stapf in his own hand.
7. Edward Augustus Bowles (1865--1954). British horticulturalist, plantsman and garden writer. His name has been preserved in many varieties of plant.
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