From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
5 January 1896
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.123, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer regarding some photographs of Wedgwood & Tassie medallions depicting Sir Joseph Banks & his wife [Dorothea]. Discusses the fee he should be paid by the Ceylon [Sri Lanka] government for completing the flora [A HAND-BOOK TO THE FLORA OF CEYLON]. JDH is enjoying working on the plants in detail. He intends to use [Charles Baron] Clarke's work as reference for Cyperaceae though he will also need to refer to specimens. JDH criticises [Henry] Trimen's work [on the Ceylon handbook], particularly for referring the generic description of genus Caprifoliaceae to the ordinal for Viburnum. JDH mentions that when he was in India he was offered the Directorship of the [Peradeniya] botanic garden, Ceylon, after [George] Gardner died. JDH suggests that Thiselton-Dyer apply to the Board for administrative help during the absence of the Assistant Director [Daniel] Morris. JDH is sending Morris his recollection of the St Michaels from his Glasgow years as Morris is interested in oranges.
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JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD], sending his reassurances regarding an operation WTTD's mother is having. JDH recalls, in general terms, his difficulties with printers & publishers mentioning both Soper, & Reeve. JDH does not have any of the Tibetan instruments WTTD wants. The only artefact he has from his travels is a brass pipe which he smoked during his imprisonment. JDH asks if WTTD wants him to return an [inscribed slab'. JDH mentions that the British Museum want to buy a portrait of Robert Brown from JDH, but it will first be offered for sale to RBG Kew & the Royal Society.
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JDH offers his assistance to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer in the matter of the RBG Kew library catalogue. [Sir John?] Evans has approached JDH about a scheme for transferring RBG Kew's Cryptogamic collection to the British Museum [of Natural History]. JDH would not discuss the matter with Evans but informs WTTD of his strong objection to breaking up the RBG Kew herbarium collection built up by JDH & his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker. He suspects Evans wanted to relocate the Musci & algae in particular. JDH describes the herbarium in total as representing the 'Botany of the Century' & says to divide it would be 'emasculation'. Particularly considering WJH's early career as a cryptogamist & JDH's own publications & collections from Antarctica.
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JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that he has sent a copy of the York lectures to RBG Kew librarian [William Botting] Hemsley. JDH is unhappy with the colouring of the plates in the Oct 1896 number of [CURTIS'S BOTANICAL] MAGAZINE & has written to the publisher Lovell Reeve. JDH has not received payment [from Reeve?] for the species descriptions he has written [for CURTIS'S] since July 1895 & fears the publication will not last much longer. JDH has also been kept waiting for sheets of his FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA.
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