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"Telegrams: 
Nathismds, SocTHKENfi, London. 
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY), 
Cromwell Road, 
London, S.W.7. 
11th, February 1937 
FI*J.H.Corner, Jbisq., M.A., 
Botanic Gardens, 
SINGAPORE. 
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iviy dear Corner, 
I have passed on your letter about the nomenclature 
of Arfltocarpus to Taylor, who, as it happens, has been 
up against some of the problems quite recently. I will 
go over his conclusions with him and he will write to 
you. Meanwhile it is necessary to learn something 
about one of Thunberg's specimens. 
Nomenclature is a limitless nuisance: the only 
bright spot about it is that all the Homers nod. 
Like myself you seem to be traversing many fields! 
At present I am concerned with the state of the Royal 
Navy a hundred years or so ago - of no importance what¬ 
soever but I have to talk to some people and I find it 
is usually well to have something to talk about. My 
last effort I send herewith. 
I hope all goes well with you. Things are pretty 
quiet here but I have heard a whisper that Sharpies 1 s 
book on Rubber Diseases has been withdrawn from circul¬ 
ation until some objections of Fetch have been met. It 
seems to be becoming the fashion always to let everyone 
say their little piece in their own words and so instead 
of merely remarking e.g. n X states that the spores vary 
in size", a wad of half a page is lifted from the original 
book or paper - and then a similar wad from some other 
paper where a remark is made about the colour: and this 
where the writer could have made his own observations and 
statement. I imagine Fetch has objected to the lifting 
of portions of his book, though I don't yet know the facts. 
With kind regards, 
Yours very sincerely, 
