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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:

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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:
Hooker Project

JHC370

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 July 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that Lord Hatherley has found in George Bentham's favour on all points [regarding the amendment of the Linnean Society by-laws]. JDH still hopes [Marcus Manuel] Hartog will accept the post [of Assistant Director, Peradeniya Botanic Garden] in Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. In a post script JDH briefly discusses a recent experiment with carnivorous plants: Nepenthes rafllesiana & phyllamphora & mentions the difficulty of studying Darlingtonia & Cephalotus.

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:

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Contributor:
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