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JHC175

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 October 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.70, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks Gray for a reference to General Alvord's first account of the Compass plant [Silphium laciniatum], alluded to by Gray in Silliman's Journal [AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS]. JDH has a drawing of the Compass plant to be published in the Jan number of CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. JDH has had lunch with George Thurber. JDH has received a collection of plants, mostly Cape types, from the plateau of the African Lakes. They were collected by a Mr Thomson, companion of the unfortunate Keith Johnstone. JDH praises Alfred Russel Wallace's book on island distribution [ISLAND LIFE]. JDH writes that he is sending books to Gray, he lists prices for the following publications based on a catalogue: a work by Nees von Essenbeck & Weihe, HISTOIRE PARTICULERE ORCHIDEES RECUEILLIES AUSTRALES by Petit-Thouars, a work by Delile, PLANTES USUÉLLES DES BRÉSILIENS by Saint-Hilaire, a book about ferns of the Antilles, FLORA SARDOA by Moris & FLORA ESPAGÑOLA Ó HISTORIA DE LAS PLANTAS QUE SE CRIAN EN ESPAGÑA by Martinez. JDH suggests that Gray pay £8 for the full 28 volumes he wants. Gray is missed at Kew. The health of JDH's sister Elizabeth Evans-Lombe is improving. JDH & his wife Hyacinth Hooker are both keen to get away for a holiday. [John] Smith is incapacitated by sciatica & it is causing problems with garden duties which may prevent JDH going to Italy.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC176

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 October 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.71, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Gray for sending him notes on the Compass plant [Silphium laciniatum]. Discusses payment for books purchased for Gray. JDH subscribed to Leighton's Lichen Flora so that Leighton would leave his collections to RBG Kew, he is sending a copy of the new edition to Gray. Mrs Bentham has broken her femur. JDH's son Charles Paget Hooker's has been burnt out of his house, the fire killed some livestock & pets. John Smith is incapacitated by sciatica & the garden work is falling to JDH & William Thiselton-Dyer. JDH is relieved it will be his last year on The Royal Society Council, after a total of 16 years duty. He recounts some internal affairs of the Linnean Society, George Bentham resigned due to the appointment of Marie to Kippist's place on the Linnean Council. JDH is disappointed at the appointment of non-scientists as librarian & secretary to the Linnean Society. The Hooker family are well. JDH wishes he could join Gray in Spain but his duties will not allow it. He is busy with the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. Bentham is upset with JDH's slow progress on palms [for GENERA PLANTARUM].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC177

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 November 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.72, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH lists some things he has found lying in the RBG Kew herbarium for Gray: newspapers, a letter from Baird about a bronze statue of Henry, a copy of C.E. Norton's CHURCH BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGES, & a specimen of Castanea vesca from Martindale with female inflorences imitating male ones. Charles Darwin's MOVEMENTS OF PLANTS is out but JDH thinks that Alfred Russel Wallace's ISLAND LIFE is the best natural history book of the season. [Miles Joseph] Berkeley & his daughter have been staying with the Hooker's but left early as he had an attack of gout. Berkeley has suffered with many ailments throughout his life, he is now 78. Hyacinth Hooker is organising Miss Shepard's rooms.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC687

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
6 January 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 62, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-13028

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 203
Summary:

Apologises for his silence when Francis Darwin’s paper was read at the Linnean Society.

AG’s review of Movement in plants [Nation 32 (1881): 17–18].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13031

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (130b)
Summary:

Thanks for AG’s reviews [of Movement in plants] in the Journal and Nation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 21 (1881): 245–9 and Nation 32 (1881): 17–18], especially for AG’s comment about Frank Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC688

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 March 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 63, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC693

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 January 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 68, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC694

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 March 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 70, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC696

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
31 March 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 71, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC697

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 May 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 72, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC698

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 July 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 73, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC699

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 August 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 74, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC700

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 September 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 75, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC701

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 September 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 76, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC702

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 October 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 77, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC703

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 November 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 78, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC704

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 November 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 79, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC706

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 December 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 80, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC707

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 January 1883
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 81, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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