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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

JHC618

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 June 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray correspondence 1, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

JDH clarifies that he is not the source of a request for Asa Gray to review his publication GENERA PLANTARUM. Especially as he is under the impression Gray would have nothing complimentary to say about his work on the order Rubiaceae, despite the effort JDH has put into & his belief that he has corrected more mistakes than he has made. He notes that [Sir William Turner] Thiselton-Dyer corrected the work before it went to press. JDH has just returned from a tour of the left bank of the Rhine, Eifel country [volcanic region of Germany], with his wife [Frances Hooker nee Henslow], [John] Lubbock & the Grant-Duffs. They also saw Luxembourg & Treves [Trier]. JDH has asked the publisher, Longman, to send Gray a copy of Decaisne & Le Maout [A GENERAL SYSTEM OF BOTANY DESCRIPTIVE AND ANALYTICAL]. JDH is currently working on the FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA with Thiselton-Dyer but they are hampered by shortcomings in [Carl Friedrich Philipp von] Martius' work & the illness of [Michael Packenham] Edgeworth & [Thomas] Thomson. [George] Bentham is currently working on Mimosaceae for Martius' work. A young man who works for Micheli, of Geneva, is at RBG Kew working on Onograceae & Rubiaceae. Bibb has sent RBG Kew a collection of Illinois plants. JDH hopes to go on holiday to the Auvergne with [Thomas Henry] Huxley. JDH also has much to do reforming business procedures at the Royal Society & arranging the Society's move to new apartments.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC619

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 August 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 2, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he has returned from a trip to the Auvergne, Cantal, Mont Dore & Ardeche country taken with [Thomas Henry] Huxley, who is now at Baden Baden, Switzerland. Mentions professor Cresson[?] is working under Sir W. Thomson & has sent JDH Aster seeds. [Daniel] Oliver is in Jersey. [George] Bentham is working on Mimosaceae for FLORA BRAZILIENSIS. JDH shook off a minor attack of bronchitis whilst on tour in the Eifel with [John] Lubbock & [Mountstuart Elphinstone] Grant-Duff. Thanks Gray for his congratulations on JDH gaining the Presidency of the Royal Society though admits he feels 'oppressed' with the prospects. Mentions Gray getting [William Starling] Sullivant's collection of mosses, RBG Kew has received Hunt's mosses as a gift. JDH expresses low opinion of [William] Carruthers & his conduct in answer to a bill in chancery. Reports on the current whereabouts of his family: Frances, Brian & Reginald at Eastbourne, William with JDH at Kew & Harriet in Gloucestershire. JDH describes & highly compliments a botany course designed by Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer to be run at the school in South Kensington. Thanks Gray for putting a notice of [his wife France Hooker's English translation of] Decaisne & Le Maout's work [TRAITÉ GÉNÉRAL DE BOTANIQUE DESCRIPTIVE ET ANALYTIQUE] in Silliman's Journal [AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE]. JDH cannot recall where he got notice of Sarracenia rubra, alias purpurea. [John Gilbert] Baker has sent all the notes of [Auguste Boniface] Ghiesbreght. JDH has sent Gray Ferns by 'young Ross'. JDH intends to make a cold fernery & asks Gray for roots. Comments on the release of further 'Survey Botanical Reports' & Sullivant's supplements. Notes that the South Kensington Museum is to be put under the British Museum trustees, a symptom of Gladstone's 'mad' government, under which he expects RBG Kew has had 'a lucky escape'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC620

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
27 August 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 3, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC621

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 September 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 4, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC622

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 September 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 5, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC623

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 October 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 6, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC624

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 November 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 7, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC625

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 December 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 8, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC626

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 July 1874
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 9, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

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

JHC628

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 July 1875
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 11, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC629

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 April 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 12, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC630

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
27 April 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 13, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC631

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 May 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 14, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC632

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 June 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 15, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC633

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 July 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 18, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC634

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 March 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 19, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC638

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 April 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 20, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC639

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 April 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 21, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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