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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 writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer regarding Térme[?] repeatedly objecting to the appointment of George Samuel Jenman, previously as Superintendent of the Jamaica Botanic Garden [Castleton] & now to a post with the Museum at Demerara [British Guiana, now Guyana]. JDH recommended [Sir Anthony] Musgrave send Jenman to Venezuela for chocolate. JDH will respond to a letter from Campbell. JDH discusses the deterioration of the wood work in the hot houses at RBG Kew, including the Orchid House, Victoria[?] House & Tropical Fern House, & suggests ventilation & using hard wood would prolong its life from the 6 years predicted by John Smith. He mentions using brown paper to patch up Palm House holes. Mentions £2000 should do more in [Economic Botany] Museum Number 1 than pay for a staircase. JDH adds in a post script that they have been to Stirling & Callander.