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Jan[ua]ry 30 1909
THE CAMP,
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.
My dear Stapf*1
S.T. Dunn*2 of the Hong Kong Gardens has given to Kew a fine new Balsam, I[mpatiens]. Matthewii, HK. J[?]. He sent it to me to name on loan[,] a restriction against which I remonstrated & so he gives.
I received it on the 28th.
Please ask Mr [Sidney Alfred] Skan to put aside the 3 periodicals for me. They can be sent when other things come for me.
The Berlin Indo China Balsams are a very bad lot. Many are quite undescribable[sic] for want of flowers
Jan[ua]ry 30 1909
THE CAMP,
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.
My dear Stapf*1
S.T. Dunn*2 of the Hong Kong Gardens has given to Kew a fine new Balsam, I[mpatiens]. Matthewii, HK. J[?]. He sent it to me to name on loan[,] a restriction against which I remonstrated & so he gives.
I received it on the 28th.
Please ask Mr [Sidney Alfred] Skan to put aside the 3 periodicals for me. They can be sent when other things come for me.
The Berlin Indo China Balsams are a very bad lot. Many are quite undescribable[sic] for want of flowers
or flowers so decayed as to be unexaminable, but there [are] some most curious species amongst them. All are quite different from either Chinese or Malayan.
I am still working at the Philippine Islanders. There must be at least 20 distinguishable species. They are a very difficult lot -- all of Malay Archipelago type.
The system of cross-numbering the species, or specimens. -- Herb. Bureau of Sciences -- Herb. Gov[ernmen]t Laboratories
Herb. Philippine Normal School
Herb. Philippine Exposition Board
Herb. San Fernando School
is quite distracting.
Ever sincerely y[our]s | J.D. Hooker [signature]
*3 Ackn[owledged]. To Mr. Dunn. 1.2.09 (H.254)
Returned…
Advised 2.11.09. (H.269)
1. 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 British citizen in 1905. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1927. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
2. Stephen Troyte Dunn (1868--1938). British botanist. He joined Kew in 1898 as private secretary to the director, W.T. Thisleton-Dyer, and in 1901 became assistant for India in the Herbarium. In 1903 he departed for Hong Kong, where, as superintendent in the Department of Botany and Forestry, he was extensively involved in collecting and describing the flora of China.
3. The annotations on page 4 are not written in the hand of Joseph Hooker, they appear to be in the hand of Otto Stapf, the recipient.
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