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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 acknowledges receipt of a document from the Royal Bavarian Academy [of Sciences and Humanities] congratulating him on his 90th birthday. He addresses his thanks for the flattering & aesthetically lovely document to the President of the Society: Karl Theodore von Heigel.
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JDH thanks Otto Stapf for the greetings the latter conveyed on behalf of all the RBG Kew herbarium staff on the occasion of JDH's 90th birthday. He looks back on his time working in the herbarium and library of Kew as 'the happiest of my scientific life' and places great value on the work done by all the dedicated employees, without whom he could not have completed his own labours. He asks that his thanks be past to the staff along with the sentiment that JDH believes in ' he enduring scientific value & the renown of the unique establishment entrusted to their care'.