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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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Typescript letter to Francis Darwin regarding the geographic distribution of plants. Hooker is working with Mr Ball to draw up a scheme of areas and terms which has been approved by Asa Gray and William Thiselton-Dyer, which Hooker will have printed and sent to Francis once complete. Laments the health of Asa Gray and the death of Dickenson [?].
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JDH writes regarding exchange of money with the publisher Lovell Reeve for the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE & FLORA CAPENSIS. JDH is thinking of writing to Strachey to ask if his department looks favourable on Willy [William Henslow Hooker's] speculations, as they are distressing JDH. In a post script JDH adds that he has tried to write a just & appreciative notice [obituary] of Asa Gray. JDH thinks that Gray would have had a higher reputation if he has spent less time admiring others & more on producing works such as his Genera Florae Americae Boreali-Orientalis Illustrata or [George] Bentham's Linnean Journal Papers.
JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that he has written a letter to William Muir recommending Isaac Bayley Balfour for the position of Professor of Botany at Edinburgh University. JDH is ill with diarrhoea so must postpone his visit to Trinity House, where he had hoped to hear some of Strachey's lectures. JDH discusses the proposal of one 'Evans' that an unspecified society take on 500 corresponding members including semi scientific & non scientific men.
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