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JHC1181

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
30 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.145-146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1211

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
23 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.216-219, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1213

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
12 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.220-221, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1214

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.222-224, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1215

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
15 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.225-228, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1216

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
6 July 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.229-231, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1217

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
5 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.232-234, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1218

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
15 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.235-236, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1219

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
14 September 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.237-240, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1483

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
12 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.289, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1553

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
14 January 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.36, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1554

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
15 June 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.37-38, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC156

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for sending Elliottia & asks if anyone has fruit of it. He is unsure where to place it in relation to other genera. He is sure Cyrilla is near Ilex & Olacineae[?]. JDH has received the Aquilegia[?] roots & copy of BOTANICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Mentions the visit of Mr & Mrs Sargent &, quoting [Charles] Dickens, describes the lady as "plump and conformable". Asks where Gray saw Rodgersia podophylla advertised. Mentions the reputations of [John Louis Rodolphe] Aggassiz & Humboldt. Calls the idea of trying to disprove [Charles] Darwin's theory before Congress "humiliating". Mentions some excellent apples. [The letter is unsigned and possibly imcomplete.]

Contributor:
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JHC157

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 April 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.41-43, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has not replied to Asa Gray's letters earlier as he has been busy with Linnean & Royal Society business & there has been illness in the family, including whooping cough & measles. Mentions his 'presidential Soiree', which was very well attended, including by Charles Darwin. Also mentions selecting new candidates for the Royal Society. Explains his reasons for declining further offers of knighthood, at this point he feels he can only accept an offer of K.C.B. [Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath] as recognition of his Presidency of the Royal Society. Has received Paris Lambertii[sic] & Abies Alba & hopes Gray has got the Thistles. Comments that one Miss Kingsley is very engaging, that his sister Bessy [Elizabeth] is melancholic, that he likes one Mr Eliott, & asks about Gray's duties as a member of the Smithsonian Institution Board. Discusses George Bentham distancing himself from the Linnean Society & its resultant decline. [George] Allman will be the next President of the Linnean Society. JDH describes his busy schedule on Royal Society Council meeting days. Whilst he is away [Sir Richard] Strachey & [Sir Andrew Crombie] Ramsay will take the Chair. Thanks Gray for a postal order & apologises for not thanking Ross for some apples. Mentions Mrs Gray's fall & recovery. Tyndale wants JDH to take Presidency of the British Association at Belfast, his inaugural address will be on insectivorous plants: the effect of Carbonate of Ammonia on Nepenthes, specifically on glands in the pitcher. Promises to send Gray 'the Wedgewood medallion'. Explains that a Miss James referred to a portrait of Linnaeus but it was not by Flaxman who worked very little for Wedgewood.

Contributor:
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JHC1579

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
14 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.87, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC158

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 July 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.44, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH explains he has not written to Asa Gray recently because he is particularly busy during the absence of his aide, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, who is at South Kensington. JDH is working on a botanical primer for the Macmillan series & doing experiments for himself & Charles Darwin on insectivorous or carnivorous plants: Cephalotes, Nepenthes & Sarracenia. Has neglected work on GENERA PLANTARUM. Has had difficulty getting good systematic contributions for the FLORA INDICA, Thiselton-Dyer & Hiern did good work but Edgeworth, Masters, Andrews & Lawson all needed a lot of correction. Tells Gray about his trip to Florence, Italy for a Congress, run badly by Filippo Parlatore who JDH calls a Tragopogon [also known as 'goatsbeard'] & a 'little toad'. During the trip he saw the Miss Horners, Bakle & his wife, & Mrs Harvey. He also went to Paris, Nimes, Montpelier, Antibes, Hanbury's brother's place near Montara, Genoa, Spezzie [La Spezia] & Pisa & returned via Venice, the Brenner [Pass] Munich & Paris. [Letter appears incomplete. It bears no signature but is written in the hand of Joseph Dalton Hooker.]

Contributor:
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JHC1582

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
20 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.88, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1583

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.89-90, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC159

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Asa Gray]
Date:
-8-1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.45, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

[Letter appears to be incomplete as it bears no formal salutation, & the only date given has been added in pencil in a hand not that of the original author.] In the letter JDH writes to [Asa Gray] informing him that he is going to Belfast for the British Association. He will 'begin' at the Royal Society in November. Explains why he has refused Knight Commandership of St Michael & St George. As President of the Royal Society he feels he will inevitably be offered Knight Commandership of the Order of the Bath & will be obliged to accept even though he & his wife, Hyacinth Hooker, do not like such titles. In a post script he adds that Baker has Gay's plants ready for Gray & Mrs [Elizabeth] Lombe is unwell.

Contributor:
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JHC160

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 September 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.46-47, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for his letter of 27 Aug. Mentions spiral vessels. Comments on English knowledge of foreign developments, comparing his systematic botany to the German way. Will be glad of a copy of Valron's[?] Index. Has received the Thistles & Torrey's sheets by Dix. Praises Belfast meeting, particularly lectures by [Thomas Henry] Huxley & [John] Lubbock. Apologises that Farlow's paper was not acknowledged. JDH is sending Gray a copy of his Belfast address, it will be published in THE PROCEEDINGS. Notices of Edwards' observations have been omitted in CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, JDH implies because of a quarrel. JDH has stayed out of the Linnean Society row but is embroiled in conflict with [William] Carruthers who has complained to the Admiralty, in the name of the British Museum Trustees & through the Librarian Mr Winter Jones, that JDH has not been sharing botanical collections. Including unfounded appeals about the Welwitch collection, collections made by [William] Purdie & [Charles] Wilford, & JDH's own Antarctica collections; which were shared with Captain [James Clark] Ross. It is part of the campaign by Carruthers & [Richard] Owen to undermine JDH's position as a British Museum Trustee. Haveley[?] has also been drawn into the dispute. The illiberal museum policy is the real reason none of the Public Offices send specimens there. 'Old Gray' [John Edward Gray] will retire & be replaced by Gunther but Owen will not go until he has moved the [natural history] collection to the new building [Natural History Museum]. The natural history trusteeship, comprised of JDH, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Argyll, Viscount Eversley, Sir P. Egerton, Sir G. Burrows is ignored. Thanks Gray for Fremontia seed, shared with [Gustave Adolphe] Thuret & [Thomas] Hanbury. He will continue to send seed to Bolander through the Smithsonian. Advises that Baker will send Refugia[?] & JDH will pay Leeman. Asks what lower Cryptogams of Wilkes' voyage have been published.

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