Will not that be a
hard nut for you when you come to treat in detail on geographical
distribution?
I enclose Seeman's note, which please return when you have copied the
list, if of any use to you.
Many thanks for your carte, which I think very good. The large one had
not arrived when I was in town last week.
Sir C. Lyell's chapter on Oceanic Islands I think very good.--Believe
me, dear Darwin, yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
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_Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E. April 9, 1868._
My dear Wallace,--You allude in your note to several points which I
should much enjoy discussing with you did time and strength permit. I
know Dr. Seeman is a good botanist, but I most strongly advise you to
show the list to Hooker before you make use of the materials in print.
Hooker seems much overworked, and is now gone a tour, but I suppose you
will be in town before very long, and could see him. The list is quite
unintelligible to me; it is not pretended that the same species exist in
the Sandwich Islands and Arctic regions; and as far as the genera are
concerned, I know that in almost every one of them species inhabit such
countries as Florida, North Africa, New Holland, etc.
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