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JHC1206

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
13 January 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.202-203, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1207

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.204-206, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1208

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
14 August 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.207-209, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1209

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
14 October 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.210-212, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1210

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
24 October 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.213-215, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1378

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21?-6-1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.172, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1482

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
29 January 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.287-288, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC154

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 January 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.36-37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Asa Gray about his work on Pinus, including the nomenclature & synonymy of various species, including P. edulis, P. fremontia, P. llaveana, P. cembroides, P. perryana, P. chihuahuana, P. tuberculata, P. insignis & P. torreyaan. He has begun working on Oaks & finds them even more confusing. JDH has received Gray's letter of 4 June & bag of Torreya seeds. Mentions a Wardian Case of Sikkim Rhododendrons, [part of the letter following this mention is missing]. JDH refers to some RBG Kew staff & mentions that he pays his wife £100 per annum for working 4, 4 hour, days a week. JDH has been elected the new President of the Royal Society over Spottiswoode & the Duke of Devonshire. JDH has reservations about Gray's plans to employ a German Professor, he suggests an American or Swiss man would be better. William Thiselton-Dyer would not take the job as Professor, he has been offered lucrative positions abroad before but is determined to stay in Britain. The following day JDH will go to Cheshire to visit Mr Tollemache, who is an intimate friend of William Gladstone & previously brought Gladstone to visit RBG Kew.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1548

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1549

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
6 August 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.29-31, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC155

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 May 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.38-39, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for sending him some boxes of roots. He has received useful information regarding North American Pines from George Engelmann, whom he wishes would also study American oaks. Mentions: a case of Sikkim Rhododendrons for H. Hunnewell, death of John Torrey, sending Bolander subtropical plants including hardier palms. Some boxes from Gray arrived smashed, some things were lost possibly including the Pinguicula & Chaptalia. JDH owes Charles Sprague Sargent a letter. Ashes are hopeless, the arboretum has been hard work the past winter. JDH will go to France with Thomas Henry Huxley [THH] who has been recommended a holiday for his health. George Bentham is working on Mimosas for Martius' Flora. William Thiselton-Dyer is to withdraw from the Horticultural Society & give a series of lectures on botany at South Kensington for the National School teachers. JDH explains what form the lectures will take, they are modelled after THH's zoology lectures. JDH has been unwell but is recovered & has resumed work on the Vaccineae for GENERA PLANTARUM. Welwitsch affair not yet settled. Owen's wife has died. The Royal Commission will recommend that RBG Kew become the national herbarium with a separate Paleontological one at the British Museum [of Natural History].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1550

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 October 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.32, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1551

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
8 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1552

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
13 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.34-35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC192

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
5 March 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH discusses exchanging plants with Lady Hyacinth Jardine [later Hooker]. He would be glad to accept large quantities of Gualtheria [Gaultheria] Shallon & instructs how they should be selected & packed for transport. He would also like some Rhododendron hybrids, Primula farinosa & roots of Typha angustifolia for the pond. JDH recommends that Sir William [Jardine] cultivate small palms. JDH plans to take his wife Frances Hooker [née Henslow] to the south of France & hopes the warmer climate will help her recovery from influenza. If the Jardine's gardener can supply it JDH would like moss for packing & Sphagnum for orchids & will send plants in exchange.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC193

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
2 April 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH identifies a plant as Wigandia Caracasana, native to Venezuela, which is planted for foliage in the London parks but only flowers in a hot house. JDH would like to take a walk with Lady Hyacinth Jardine but is very busy with work. He has little time for reading novels but has started BURGO-MASTERS FAMILY & recommends it. He reports that Lady Jardine's Oaks are growing nicely & asks when she will come to see them. Frances [Hooker née Henslow] caught a cold at the [University] Boat race.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC194

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
1 April 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Lady Hyacinth Jardine [later Hooker] that Mr Smith has arranged for a pitcher plant to be sent to her, addressed to the Lockerbie station. JDH mentions the 'exceptionally splendid weather'. He has seen [Charles] Lyell at the Philosophical Club & found him changed: speech unintelligible & looking frail.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC195

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
14 April 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.4-6, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH identifies, for Lady Hyacinth Jardine [later Hooker], an Epimedium as E. pinnatum & an Elm as an Elaeagnus probably E. hortensis, which is used for making sherbet in the East. Elaegnus odoratus is not a name known to JDH but it could be a newly introduced Japanese species. JDH sends his thanks for some moss, [John] Smith would like some more. He would also like Gualtherias & any Epimedium, Asarum & Sanguinaria to plant out in beds which he will name after Lady Jardine, he also offers greenhouse plants in exchange. He intends to try growing Cyclamen on the terrace by the new range & other similar things that would not ordinarily grow in the Kew soil. A planned trip has been postponed by the illness of Frances Hooker's brother George Henslow who has become paralysed. Frances is not well either & will go to stay with the Darwins. JDH sends his regards to Lady Jardine's husband Sir William. He appears to continue the letter after the signature, addressing Sir William's criticisms of his Flora, which relate to the presence of certain species in various Scottish localities: Erica cinerea in Sutherland, Solanum nigrum at Craigmillar & Epidendrum alpinum in Dumresshire, Hymenophyllum wilsonii in Loch Lomond & Typha angustifolia in Lochmaben.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC196

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
28 April 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.7-8, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Lady Hyacinth Jardine [later Hooker] for her letters & for sending Primulas etc. He will look into Pinguicula [to send in return?]. JDH identifies a grass as Sesleria Caerulea for Sir William Jardine & requests some for RBG Kew. George Henslow [JDH's brother in law] is still paralysed. JDH asks where he should send a postal order for the Jardine's gardener. JDH relates the circumstances of Lady Lyell's death & his visit to see her lying in her coffin. Her husband Charles Lyell is grieving whilst still working on the new edition of his book THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, with Miss Buckley. The Lyells hope that Hyacinth's father [William Samuel Symonds] will bury Mrs Lyell at Woking beside Mr Horner. JDH's wife Frances has returned from Down House & is still unwell. JDH recounts the current whereabouts & activities of his children: Harriet Anne Hooker is in Cheltenham with her great aunt, William Henslow Hooker continues with the fiddle, & Charles Paget Hooker has spent his holiday with Barnard at Cheltenham.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC197

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
7 May 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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