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The Joseph Dalton Hooker Collection
The Joseph Dalton Hooker Correspondence Project at Kew is making available online the personal and scientific correspondence of the botanist and explorer Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ Kew from 1865-1885. The project was conceived by staff of The University of Sussex and Kew's Library, Art and Archive department and began as a partnership between Kew and the University of Sussex's Centre for World Environmental History. It has been made possible by support from the Stevenson Family Charitable Trust. Letter summaries can be searched through Ɛpsilon, with links to images and transcriptions at the project site at Kew (https://www.kew.org/explore-our-collections/correspondence-collections/joseph-hooker-collections).
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JDH & family have just returned from France via Cherbourg. They visited Rouen, Caen, Bayeux, St-Lo, Coutances, Avranches & St Michel. Also a sea bathing place called Jullouville 6 [miles] south of Granville, which JDH describes. He found the vegetation there comparable to that of the Yarmouth Denes except there was also an abundance of Eryngium Campestre & Scilla Autumnalis. JDH writes that he like Normandy where he people, agriculture & industry seem prosperous. Asa & Jane Gray were with the Hookers in France for a fortnight before returning to England. JDH does not agree with Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer 'with regard to the Rhododendron argenteum', he refers to his long familiarity with the plant & his original drawings of it. Notes that he has not yet seen 'Jackson's work' [John Reader Jackson?].