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JHC669

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
6 January 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 47, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC670

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 January 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 48, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC672

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 February 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 49, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC673

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 March 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 50, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC674

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 March 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 51, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC675

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 April 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 52, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC173

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.66-67, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes that he encloses: a cheque for Asa Gray, & Mr Brown's account of the sale of Gray's books etc [enclosures not present]. Asks about 'Mr Millar's check'. JDH's niece Willielma Campbell died after giving birth to still born child. JDH attended the funeral in Glasgow, his wife [Hyacinth Hooker] accompanied him to comfort Isabella Hooker, Willielma's mother. JDH's sister Bessy [Elizabeth Evans-Lombe nee Hooker] is staying with him at Kew on her way to visit their Aunt Brightwen in Norfolk. JDH wishes he had been with Gray in the Alleghenies. JDH asks Gray if he should send Hayden the ATHENAEUM &c for the Survey library. JDH asks what has become of his & Gray's report. George Bentham is visiting Munro. JDH & Bentham are printing the next volume of GENERA PLANTARUM, incl. Chenopodiaceae. JDH criticises Muller's article NATIVE PLANTS OF VICTORIA, particularly his intercalation of monosplanes with Choripetaleae, description of Nyctagineae & figure of Boerhavia. Mentions George Henslow's 'weeds'. Encourages Gray to come to England. JDH would like to make another trip to America but does not want to abandon Bentham as they are working on monocots for GENERA PLANTARUM. JDH praises Bentham's skill & productivity. JDH recommends that Gray work on North American Flora, new edition of his text book & Hayden's report. He suggests Gray read Bales' Royal Geographical Society lecture on alpine floras in GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. Charles Darwin is in the Lake District. Mentions Engelmann's work on differentiating Pinus species. JDH is impatient for the continuation of Watson's bibliography to simplify referencing American botany. Comments on Gray building a library & herbarium [at Harvard] & on narrow minded attitudes towards Sargent. Mentions Clarke. JDH's book TOUR IN MAROCCO [Morocco] is making a loss. Charles Paget Hooker is trying again to pass at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Edinburgh. The glass houses at RBG Kew have been damaged by a hail storm.

Contributor:
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JHC676

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 September 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 53, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC677

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 October 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 54, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC679

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 November 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 55, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC680

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 December 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 56, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC681

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 January 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 57, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC682

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 January 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 58, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC174

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 January 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.68-69, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Peabody & Co of the United States of America have sent JDH some money, an unexpected remittance of funds deposited with them for his trip in America. JDH tells Asa Gray he is particularly grateful for it as he is trying to raise £800 to set up his son Charles Paget Hooker as a partner in a medical practice in Norfolk. The practice in Coltishall is the same one previously owned by JDH's brother in law, Thomas Evans Lombe, & by a great uncle of JDH's in the previous century. Mentions Gray's correspondence with Henslow. RBG Kew is getting 36 tons of Indian wood & other 'vegetable produce' from the India Store Department. The material is to be accommodated by the RBG Kew museums, necessitating a complete rearrangement, & Sargent would also like a share. Over the last 30 years there has been over collecting of all sorts of things in India due to bad management by the India Museum authorities. He gives the example of Cashmere shawls being left unpacked to ruin in cases. JDH is concerned about the deteriorating production quality of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE which is not doing justice to the work of the new artist, Mr Barnard. It is published by Reeve & Co who have a bad reputation amongst the trade & craftsmen, e.g. lithographers & printers, for being miserly. Spencer Moore has been dismissed from the RBG Kew herbarium for 'gross insubordination & insolence', JDH calls him 'a lunatic'. Baker is going to work on the Agaves & Fourcroyas. [James Edward Tierney] Aitchison has a lot of news & good things from Afghanistan.

Contributor:
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JHC684

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 March 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 59, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC685

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3?-5-1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 60, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC686

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 August 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 61, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

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:
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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.

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