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JHC170

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 February 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.61, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is busy working on a new edition of his STUDENT'S FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES he compares the delineation of species in the flora to that in Asa Gray's MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES. JDH consults Gray on whether Gymnosperms should be a subclass of Dicotyledons or a group equal to all other Phaenogams? Joseph Decaisne, Gray & JDH favour the former position, Daniel Oliver & William Thiselton-Dyer the latter. Gnetum, esp. Formation of the embryo, will be key in determining the correct arrangement. JDH has sent the corrected SCIENCE PRIMER: BOTANY to the press, he would find such works easier to write if he also lectured. Life with his new wife Hyacinth Hooker is good & his future looks bright though sad times behind him make him doubt its security. JDH's sister Mrs Elizabeth Evans-Lombe, née Hooker is suffering less from neuralgia & melancholy. George Bentham is well. Oliver is working on the African flora, & Moore[?] is working on grasses. Asks if Charles Sprague Sargent can send American Southern Bamboo.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC171

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 February 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.62-63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he has resigned as President of the Royal Society. JDH believes [William] Spottiswoode, mathematician & engineer, will be his successor. He explains why he is glad that it will not be [George] Stokes. He hopes that John Evans will be elected treasurer. George Engelmann has written to JDH about his Abies & about Juniperus. JDH disagree with Engelmann that the Sierra Nevada juniper is the same as Juniperus occidentalis of Colorado, he explains in detail the different characteristics & habit of each species including a small sketch of the roots. JDH congratulates Gray on his hypothesis regarding distribution of North American Flora, which ties in well with a lecture JDH is giving on the subject at the Royal Institution. His theme will be meridional distribution & he will compare the effect of the Alps with the American mountains. JDH credits the Mediterranean with less importance as a barrier to another Pliocene than Gray does. JDH has been comparing the flora of the Eastern United States with that of California & is amazed at the differences e.g. in order Caryophyllea. In his lecture JDH will cover Gray's researches on the Japan Flora, his own on Arctic flora, their shared travels in America & subsequent private work. JDH is surprised by the number of Asian types in the flora of West America not present in East America & wonders if they are the result of two Asiatic migrations in different periods. JDH asks Gray's opinion of the last volume of THE LIFE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT & expresses his own surprise at its revelations regarding unconstitutional political manoeuvring by Prince Albert & Queen Victoria, especially in relation to the Crimean War. JDH comments on the reversal in popularity of Gladstone & Disraeli, JDH suspects Gladstone's charges about the ministry intending to help the Turks has moved opinion. JDH is not a Tory but thinks the Liberals have made a mess of things.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC172

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.64-65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes that he & his wife, Hyacinth, are in Ireland. Killarney weather is terrible. JDH comments on absence from Dublin of [William Henry] Harvey & [Edward] Wright but notes David Moore is keeping the botanic garden well. Has recently been in touch with: [Daniel] Hanbury, Charles Dwight Marsh, Robert Lambourne & George Davidson of the Pacific Coast Survey. Discusses his work on the genus Amaranth for the GENERA PLANTARUM, he has referred to Martius' work. JDH gives news of his family: his sister Maria [McGilvray] & husband are unwell, 1 of their children is a tea planter in India. Hooker's son Charles Paget Hooker has failed his medical exams. Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker has gone to Barmen to study German & will then go to School of Mines. John Smith [Curator of Kew] has been seriously unwell, William Thiselton-Dyer has been left in charge of RBG Kew. Mentions: a letter to Wesley; the opinion of [Harvey Wilson] Harkness & [John] Muir on Sequoia trunks; & the Miocene flora of Iceland. Discusses geology, specifically his & Gray's differing opinions on glacial formation of granite valleys in the USA & contemporary formation of land masses. Discusses biogeography: Gray's thinking on commonalities in the Greenland & North American Flora. Disputes the correct classification of: Draba streptocarpa, Arenaria uliginosa & A. rossii. Discusses the correct name of the Cypress Point [California] Cupressus; is it a form of common American tree C. macrocarpa? C. goveniana is different & C. macnabiana still uncertain. Mentions C. lambertiana seed collected by Ruprecht possibly on Krusenstern's expedition. Disagrees with Gray, re. climate & the relative importance of the equator & poles. Does not understand why Gray has called Olive a deciduous tree, or his comments on drought. Mentions specimens of a Texas Amaranth. Discusses Gray's book INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGY & CLASSIFICATION, [Julius von] Sachs history of botany & politician Sir Trevor Lawrence's motion about opening Kew.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1722

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
1 September 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1723

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
12 April 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1724

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
16 April 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1725

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
2 May 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.4, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1726

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
25 June 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.5, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1727

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
12 September 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.6, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1728

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
1 May 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.7, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC173

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.66-67, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes that he encloses: a cheque for Asa Gray, & Mr Brown's account of the sale of Gray's books etc [enclosures not present]. Asks about 'Mr Millar's check'. JDH's niece Willielma Campbell died after giving birth to still born child. JDH attended the funeral in Glasgow, his wife [Hyacinth Hooker] accompanied him to comfort Isabella Hooker, Willielma's mother. JDH's sister Bessy [Elizabeth Evans-Lombe nee Hooker] is staying with him at Kew on her way to visit their Aunt Brightwen in Norfolk. JDH wishes he had been with Gray in the Alleghenies. JDH asks Gray if he should send Hayden the ATHENAEUM &c for the Survey library. JDH asks what has become of his & Gray's report. George Bentham is visiting Munro. JDH & Bentham are printing the next volume of GENERA PLANTARUM, incl. Chenopodiaceae. JDH criticises Muller's article NATIVE PLANTS OF VICTORIA, particularly his intercalation of monosplanes with Choripetaleae, description of Nyctagineae & figure of Boerhavia. Mentions George Henslow's 'weeds'. Encourages Gray to come to England. JDH would like to make another trip to America but does not want to abandon Bentham as they are working on monocots for GENERA PLANTARUM. JDH praises Bentham's skill & productivity. JDH recommends that Gray work on North American Flora, new edition of his text book & Hayden's report. He suggests Gray read Bales' Royal Geographical Society lecture on alpine floras in GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. Charles Darwin is in the Lake District. Mentions Engelmann's work on differentiating Pinus species. JDH is impatient for the continuation of Watson's bibliography to simplify referencing American botany. Comments on Gray building a library & herbarium [at Harvard] & on narrow minded attitudes towards Sargent. Mentions Clarke. JDH's book TOUR IN MAROCCO [Morocco] is making a loss. Charles Paget Hooker is trying again to pass at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Edinburgh. The glass houses at RBG Kew have been damaged by a hail storm.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1730

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
24 October 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.8, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1731

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
28 October 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1732

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
18 February 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.10, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1733

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
28 May 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1734

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
2 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1735

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
18 September 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.13, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1736

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
15 December 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1737

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
14 January 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1738

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
[13]-7-1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.16, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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