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DCP-LETT-9737

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
29 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C67–8
Summary:

Hooker is greatly overworked at Kew and is trying to get the Government to provide some help. CD hopes THF will take an interest in the matter and forwards a copy of JDH’s application for an assistant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9738

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 347–348
Summary:

Has forwarded JDH’s memorial to T. H. Farrer to take up with Sir Stafford Northcote and to ask him to consider the case of Kew personally. Has told Farrer that JDH was thinking of resigning if Government would not give him an assistant secretary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000282

From:
Louis Pasteur
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 November 1874
Source of text:
MM/5/53, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE491

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
27 Nov 1874
Source of text:
49, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

JHC374

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 November 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.22, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks for Thiselton-Dyer's opinion on an enclosed dedication [enclosure not present]. He reports that he is feeling unwell but must send off his letter to the British Museum.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC375

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
-11-1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.23, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer to give his opinion on a letter JDH has drafted to the Trustees of the British Museum, concerning JDH's Antarctic collections. Daniel Oliver has already given his opinion but does not consider JDH's position regarding the Royal Society. A copy of the letter will be sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury [Archibald Tait]. JDH refers to an enclosed magnolia [not present] which Alexander MacCleay calls fuscata but which differs from the plants under that name at RBG Kew.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC627

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 November 1874
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 10, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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