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Papers of Ernest Henry Wilson, 1896-1952. Copy of a letter from Charles Sprague Sargent to James Veitch, 1899.
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at any rate, because if he left Southwestern Yu-nan, where Henry's station is, in September to go anywhere in central or northern China, he would reach a new collecting field too late to accomplish anything this year. In view of all this my idea would be that he might, after seeing Ford, go up the Yang-tse River to Ichang, which is now a treaty post and for many years Henry's headquarters, and collect there during the autumn. In this particular region we know that there are many trees and shrubs which have not yet been introduced into cultivation, and dried specimens of Henry's collecting in that part of China can be seen either at Kew or here; and a list of them could be made out from Dr. BretSchneider's new book which I suppose you have seen. Then in the winter when the collecting season about Ichang was over he might visit Dr. Henry if you wanted him to do so. This of course would take him to the South during the winter, when he could do nothing in central and northern China. My own idea is that the great fields to be worked are from Ichang westward to the mountainous region on the border between China and Thibet, and then northward in the territory watered by the upper Yellow River, and so on to Pekin and northward.
I have been thinking myself lately a good deal about China and have almost determined to try and do something there on account of the Arboretum if I can get hold of the right man for the work. All this is still very vague with me and may come to nothing; if it does, there is no danger of our conflicting, for the field is an enormous one