From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mary and Elizabeth Hooker
Date:
29 March 1840
Source of text:
JDH/1/3 f.119-128, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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Erebus and Terror have arrived in Simon's Bay. Discussed Magnetic Observatory with J. C. Ross, Captain Croper, and F. E. Wilmot, and wrote government requesting funds. Obelisk has not yet reached the Cape. Small pox rages in Cape Town.