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JHC617

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
--[1876]
Source of text:
JDH/1/14/2 f.243-253, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary availale.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC166

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 January 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.54-55, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he is writing to Waldo Ross to thank him for a barrel of apples. JDH has received Gray's letter of 6 Dec [1875] & thanks him for a second copy of AESTIVATION AND TERMINOLOGY. JDH agrees with Gray regarding the importance of keeping [herbarium] material out of bad hands. He praises Decaisne's Pirus essay & Gray's notes in it, but notes that [Henri Ernest] Baillon has inserted a mistake into Decaisne's work; regarding the position of ovules. JDH dismisses Baillon's HISTOIRE [DES PLANTES] & calls his work on Phytolacceae a poor rehash of a bad work by Moquin-Tandon. JDH is puzzled what to do with Stegnosperma. He & George Bentham[GB] have decided to keep up Paronychieae [in GENERA PLANTARUM] & put Limeum & Gisekia [Gisechia] into Mollugineae. JDH has done Nyotaginea & had a dreadful task with Mirabilis Oxybaphus & co. But with GB's agreement kept Mirabilis for the big flowers & Oxybaphus for the small as a poor compromise. He offers to send Gray the glossary. He thinks Gray's varieties of O. cervantesii are both good distinct species. JDH is now working on Paronychieae & GB on Labiatae. Acanthaceae is being printed, to be followed by Verbenaceae. In response to Gray's entreaty JDH states he cannot visit him in the USA as he has 6 children to deal with. Hardy will go to New York in July & JDH would like to visit Gray at that time. Parish lives up to expectations. Diggs has given another grant to print the CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS for 1863-73. GB has recovered from a cold. Munro has settled near Taunton. [Thomas] Thomson has been very ill, he lives near Maidstone. [Charles Robert] Darwin is well, for him.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1222

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
15 January 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.247-250, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-76-01-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
22 January 1876
Source of text:
K76/676, unit 873, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-01-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
27 January 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 172
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-02-00

From:
Edward Symonds
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
February 1876
Source of text:
76/R4853, unit 735, VPRS 1207/P000 inward registered correspondence, VA 865 Department of the Treasurer, Public Record Office, Victoria.Letter not found. The text given here is from an unsigned copy of the minute (no. 1756) among the annotations on M's letter to E. Symonds, 9 February 1876
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[4 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 56–7)
Summary:

Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.

Mentions visit to Royal Society.

Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-02-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
7 February 1876
Source of text:
J76/1250, unit 875, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-02-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Symonds
Date:
9 February 1876
Source of text:
76/R4853, unit 735, VPRS 1207/P000 inward registered correspondence, VA 865 Department of the Treasurer, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-02-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
11 February 1876
Source of text:
J76/1250, unit 875, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-02-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
12 February 1876
Source of text:
No. 1277, vol. 1876 K, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a)
Summary:

Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.

Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-02-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
16 February 1876
Source of text:
K76/1416, unit 874, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10402

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40)
Summary:

Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.

On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-M76-02-19

From:
Charles Moore
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 February 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Bentham Correspondence, vol. 7, f. 2862
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-02-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
19 February 1876
Source of text:
K76/1893, unit 875, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-02-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
24 February 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1871-81. ff. 173-174
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M76-02-25

From:
Charles Moore
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 February 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors Correspondence , vol. 173, f. 250
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-02-25

From:
Edward Symonds
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 February 1876
Source of text:
No. 1246, unit 12, p. 416, VPRS 1211/P000 outward registered correspondence, VA 865 Department of the Treasurer, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC167

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 March 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.56-57, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has invited Judge Hastings & family to lunch. JDH currently working on GENERA PLANTARUM & proofs of FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, with the sub-par help of Baker. JDH sending Asa Gray a copy of his [SCIENCE] PRIMER[: BOTANY] for critique. Looks forward to seeing the synoptic sample of Gray's FLORA BOREALIS AMERICANA. JDH would like to visit Gray but cannot leave his family with nobody to care for them. Thinks he must marry again. His daughter, Harriet [Anne Hooker] is ill & has been staying with the Munros near Taunton & her aunt, JDH's sister, in Torquay. Mentions Tyndall's marriage: ceremony performed by Dean Stanley, hopes the new Mrs Tyndall will be a good influence. Lady Augusta died the day after the wedding & the flowers JDH sent for the wedding became wreaths for a coffin. [Sir E. Ray] Lankester has been voted into the Linnean Society despite Carruther's opposition. Comments on George Allman as president of the Linnean Society & his own wish to resign the Vice President-ship. Mentions sending ROYAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS & clavis of Nyctago[?] to Gray. Reports on the progress of getting the new Herbarium building approved & constructed. It transpires the site & present herbarium house belong to RBG Kew having been sold by King George IV, meaning subsequent monarchs William IV & Queen Victoria never actually owned Hanover House. The existing building will become a library, as originally intended by Joseph Banks, & an extension built for the herbarium. JDH is called away to work on the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

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