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Obituary notice of Richard Spruce by Isaac Bayley Balfour. Offprint from the Annals of Botany, vol. XIV no. LVI, Dec 1900. pp. [1]-4 with signed portrait of Spruce reproduced facing p.[1]. Front cover annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Obituary notice of Richard Spruce by Dr. Isaac Bayley Balfour F.R.S. &c &c (Keeper of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden) | With Portrait | in the 'Annals of Botany' | Clarendon Press, Oxford." Notes: Last date based on the period when A. R. Wallace was working on his edition of Spruce's Journal, and therefore the likely date of the annotations in his hand. |
