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Dear Mr.Ramsbottpm, 
Many thanks for your letter of 11th February. 
I am afraid that I overlooked it until this morning 
when I began to read your Presidential Address and 
to my joy the letter fell out! It is very good of you 
to ask Taylor to go into the problems of Artocarpus, 
and of him to undertake so much# As you say, nomenclature 
is a limitless nuisance! 1 am afraid the specimens of 
Artocarpus which I sent arrived rather long after my 
letter* there was a mistake at this end, I find that 
people do not appreciate the difference between the 
Jack-fruit and the Chempedak: indeed, it seems to me 
that the differences have never been clearly set out. 
In seed-structure they are so different that I doubt if 
they are even ”next-door species”. 
I was very amused at what you say of Sharpie s 
book, and I am not surprised, x agreed wholly with 
review of it which I read, I forget where. When I see 
so much quotation, and some of it garbled, I never 
trust the author, because he cannot understand. Sharpie’s 
remark^that F. ll&nosus rarely spores is nonsense. Every 
fruit-body spores for several months, only the spores 
are very small m) and transparent* If the author can 
have missed so much after so many years research in Malaya, 
to what extent can he have penetrated into any biological 
problem? How easy it is to criticise! 
J. Rarasbottom, Ssq., 
Yours sincerely 
British Museum (Natural History), 
Cromwell Road, 
London S.W.7» ENGLAND. 
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