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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 compliments Sir William Thiselton-Dyer on part 1 of the HAND-LIST [OF TREES AND SHRUBS GROWN IN ARBORETUM at RBG Kew]. His only criticism is that those that need to be grown under glass, in the Temperate House, should be marked. [Otto] Stapf has sent JDH [José Camilla] Lisboa's letter & grasses, which incl. 1 new species. JDH thinks the Bombay Government should be advised to delay Lisboas 'insane attempt' to publish a list of Bombay grasses until after the FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA volume 7 is out. JDH continues to struggle with Indian synonomy, for example Cynodon dactylon is mixed up with Paspalum sanguinale. In a post script JDH praises WTTD's 'notice of [Sir George] Watt & paper on the Royal Society. He comments on recent criticism of the Royal Society as a result of [Sir John] Evans & [Sir Michael] Foster attempting to raise the Society's public profile. JDH is particularly concerned about an article on money awards given with Society medals & wonders how [Herbert] Rix can respond. JDH is currently checking the names of Lisboa's Isachnes[?] & thinks all the species on Lsiboa's list should be checked at RBG Kew before the list is published.