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RS-MM-001721

From:
F Jeffrey Bell, 5 Radnor Place, Gloucester Square
To:
Alfred Hastings White, Assistant Librarian, The Royal Society
Date:
28 January 1893
Source of text:
MM/22/65, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC1161

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Paul Friedrich August Ascherson
Date:
30 January 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.121-123, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001006

From:
Hermann Johann Phillipp Sprengel
To:
Frederick Augustus Abel
Date:
20 February 1893
Source of text:
MM/16/13, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC485

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 February 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.128, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH explains why he considers Dr [James William Helenus] Trail a suitable candidate for fellowship of the Royal Society. It was JDH who recommended that Trail go on the expedition up the Amazon 12 years previously & Trail made the most of the opportunity for scientific purposes making excellent collections & observations, especially papers on the palms of the Amazon published in [Henry] Trimen's journal of botany in 1876 & work on Amazon ant-housing plants. He has also published further papers, catalogued in the Royal Society Compilations & is producing more. Trail is also a productive teacher of biological science & his students have often proved excellent members of expeditions. JDH intends to add his signature to Trail's paper of qualifications.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001007

From:
George Carey Foster
To:
Frederick Augustus Abel
Date:
13 March 1893
Source of text:
MM/16/14, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC1667

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Francis “Frank” Darwin
Date:
13 March 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.208-209, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC486

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 April 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] giving his opinion of various publications by Alphonse de Candolle. JDH does not intend to write a notice of 'Alphonse de Candolle's [recent] work', as he has a very low opinion of it. JDH criticise de Candolle's descriptions & his systematic work. JDH lists those he considers superior contemporary systematists; Pourret, Saint-Hilaire, von Martius, Bentham, Endlicher, Gray & Engelmann. JDH has a higher opinion of de Candolle's geographical botany. He reviewed his GÉOGRAPHIE BOTANIQUE in the JOURNAL OF BOTANY, concluding that it was full of useful data but lacked philosophical views & was tainted by a belief in multiple creation of species & scepticism towards evolution, though this was before the 'Darwinian Epoch'. Darwin in fact had a high opinion of the work, & [Asa] Gray a modest one. JDH considers THE ORIGINE DES PLANTES CULTIVÉES an excellent book but not comprehensive, e.g. it does not address the cultivation of Amorphophallus campanulatus or Tacca, which is cultivated from Tahiti to Malaya. JDH calls THE HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES ET DES SAVANTS 'very good & instructive' & thinks its highlight's de Candolle's forte, which is as a statistician. He has not read de Candolle's biography of his father [Augustin Pyrame de Candolle] or his methodology of descriptive botany & was unimpressed by his INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. He summarises that it is impossible to consider the work of de Candolle without appearing to deprecate him though his wealth & leisure have allowed him time to contribute much to botany. JDH suggests that [William Botting] Hemsley take on LOIS DE LA NOMENCLATURE BOTANIQUE. JDH mentions some Tibetan plants of interest & 'securing' George Massee. JDH is working on Indian Eriocaulons, which he thinks is the most minute flowers genus of Phenogams, & grasses. JDH thanks WTTD for some Rhododendrons. Balfour has sent JDH a list of New Zealand Veronicas which they have at Edinburgh [Botanic Garden].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC487

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
17 April 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.130, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH critiques the work of Alphonse de Candolle. His MONOGRAPHIAE PHANEROGAMARUM does not accord with JDH's revision of the Phanerogams. JDH recognises that he has worked hard at botany, though he is wealthy enough not to have needed to. However, he finds that de Candolle's treatment of plant distribution GÉOGRAPHIE BOTANIQUE RAISONNÉE shows a lack of deep understanding of the subject & is more a collection of useful data than an attempt to reach any conclusions. JDH asks if Alphonse de Candolle is dead. JDH has had no answer to his letter to Carriere[?]. [George] Bentham has completed work on the Australian Enocaulaceae & JDH is reviewing them to determine which ones are Indian species. JDH suggests that de Candolle's systematic work does not compare favourable with those of Asa Gray, Antoine Jusseau & George Bentham but if de Candolle is dead them JDH will take on de Candolle's systematic work.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001695

From:
Charles Scott Sherrington
To:
Herbert Rix
Date:
20 April 1893
Source of text:
MM/22/35, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC900

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
2 May 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.91-91a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001008

From:
Hermann Johann Phillipp Sprengel
To:
Frederick Augustus Abel
Date:
17 May 1893
Source of text:
MM/16/15, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC1765

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
24 May 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.44, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC903

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
24 May 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.93, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001661

From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
unknown
Date:
21 July 1893
Source of text:
MM/21/106, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000566

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Henry Edward Armstrong
Date:
26 July 1893
Source of text:
MM/10/98, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC829

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29?-7-1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.20, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC901

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
11 August 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.92, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC830

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 September 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC768

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
7 September 1893
Source of text:
HNR/2/1/3 f.106, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1668

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Francis “Frank” Darwin
Date:
15 September 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.210, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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