From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
27 August 1899
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Hooker Project
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JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer regarding arrangements for publishing Harriet Thiselton-Dyer's drawings [in CURTIS' BOTANICAL MAGAZINE]. JDH criticizes the publisher Dulau for giving WTTD trouble with A HAND-BOOK TO THE FLORA OF CEYLON. JDH discusses his difficulties with classifying the grasses of Ceylon [Sri Lanka], [Otto] Stapf assists him with this but they disagree on the division of tribes & Stapf's key from FLORA CAPENSIS is proving flawed. JDH is going to Dartmouth, whilst he is away [William Botting] Hemsley will look after the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.
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ARW mentions a reviewer in Science noticing ARW's paper on "The Gorge of the Aar". Many Swiss geologists have proved that some Alpine lakes are due to subsidence or deformation, ?see Aeppli's essay on Lake Zurich. ARW asks for references to these proofs.
ARW has finished reading ?C. R.'s book and makes some remarks. Regarding getting European seeds for comparison, he enquires if CR has asked Mr Thomas Hanbury of La Mortola garden.
ARW thanks CR for the offer of loan of periodicals with articles on erosion. James Geikie has sent a brief reply to Aeppli. Percy Kendall has promised photographs illustrating glacial phenomena.
ARW returns the papers C. R. lent him. The paper on Spitzbergen was very instructive, to do with the rapid motion of glaciers and occurrence of ?re-eddies which Bonney denies. The paper on Skye is more puzzling. PS Owing to terrible drought, April-August, none of the Acer seeds came up, nor seeds of Cornus nuttallii.
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Thanking ARW for his report and enclosures on the storage of gunpowder and returning them, with comments on the proposal as applied to retailers.
William's letter from America describing Mack's (sic) machine; misinterpretation of ARW's letter, he does not think William wasting his time in America but should move somewhere more interesting; ARW's health better, asthmatic cough going away; planting in garden; search for details of Wallace Scottish ancestors and Greenell family for autobiography, information from headmaster of Hertford Grammar School; fate of three family portraits, Mr and Mrs Gorringe, the current owners of one of the architect William Greenell refuse permission for it to be photographed, asks William to intercede on his return; Miss Evans wants American stamps; William's finances; Socialism in America.
William's letters from America, death of his horse, snowshoes, severe winter in New York; "Ardmore" still not sold; gathering material for autobiography, does William know whereabouts of steel seal and inscription on family ring, intends to visit a Dorset clergyman who owns a painting of a member of the Wallace family and if possible photograph for the book; bulbs and seeds ordered for garden; apparent loss of books and magazines in post; William's intention to start a business in Bournemouth [with Ma]); ARW writing on white men in the tropics for the New York Independent; writing on Craig's History of Ralahine, Irish cooperative farm 1831-33, to publicise a successful experiment in Socialism.
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