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FVM-78-01-01a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 January 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 205
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC217

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
--1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.45, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-78-01-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 January 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Falkland Islands, Miscellaneous, 1841-1928, Miscellaneous reports 18.5, f. 323.This letter is written to the right of the central margin on the back of the folio, at the end of the text of a letter from W. H. Bacchus to J. G. Luehmann, 7 November 1877, transcribed below. The front of the folio is annotated at top left in an unknown hand Sent | Oct 29/69.Mr J G Luehman (sic)Dear SirYours of the 29th Ult received. I should like to get some more of the [perennial] Wheat grass as I think a good deal of it. Is not a [grain] (judging from the way it comes up) but a cereal grass which makes it more interesting My grass seed[s] saved are sown on my land in Autumn drilled together and I do not keep them. I send in separate parcel packets of a few which are left. The Baron (when do you expect he will return) promised to write to the Falkland Islands for seeds of Tussock grass Dactylis caespitosa. I should like very much to procure some. Some years ago you kindly gave me some seeds of Pringlea antiscorbutica none came up have you heard of any one having grown it - You seemed to be short of plants of Azolla rubra I can send plenty if you require anyI am always glad to [receive] seeds of new grass or fodder plants to sow for test purposes.I remain yours trulyW H BacchusPeerewur 7 Nov /77
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC647

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 January 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 29, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-78-01-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 January 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 206
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC872

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
23 January 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.64, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC648

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 January 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 30, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 106–7)
Summary:

Thanks for WTT-D’s help.

Burying action of seeds.

"Bloom" on ferns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1092

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
?-2-1878
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.145-146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9)
Summary:

Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.

Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC216

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
8 February 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.44, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

All London is talking about a report of the Russians advancing into Constantinople [Istanbul], if true it will mean war but JDH is sceptical. George Henslow has visited JDH. He has worked on the Indian flora for JDH but his work is poor & will need to be redone. William Thiselton-Dyer is to give a series of lectures on botany at the Royal Institution, which will be good for the reputation of RBG, Kew. JDH is with John Henry Lefroy, asks if Hyacinth mentioned calling on Lady Charlotte Anna Lefroy to Mrs Lyell. JDH will write to Dr Low about vaccinations. Everyone is going to 'Stanley's lecture'. JDH sends his love to all at Down [Down House] & tells Hyacinth to kiss the baby for him.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 110–11)
Summary:

Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1732

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
18 February 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.10, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11367

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 and 21 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 112–13)
Summary:

Letter from Gaston de Saporta.

Germination of onion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC171

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 February 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.62-63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he has resigned as President of the Royal Society. JDH believes [William] Spottiswoode, mathematician & engineer, will be his successor. He explains why he is glad that it will not be [George] Stokes. He hopes that John Evans will be elected treasurer. George Engelmann has written to JDH about his Abies & about Juniperus. JDH disagree with Engelmann that the Sierra Nevada juniper is the same as Juniperus occidentalis of Colorado, he explains in detail the different characteristics & habit of each species including a small sketch of the roots. JDH congratulates Gray on his hypothesis regarding distribution of North American Flora, which ties in well with a lecture JDH is giving on the subject at the Royal Institution. His theme will be meridional distribution & he will compare the effect of the Alps with the American mountains. JDH credits the Mediterranean with less importance as a barrier to another Pliocene than Gray does. JDH has been comparing the flora of the Eastern United States with that of California & is amazed at the differences e.g. in order Caryophyllea. In his lecture JDH will cover Gray's researches on the Japan Flora, his own on Arctic flora, their shared travels in America & subsequent private work. JDH is surprised by the number of Asian types in the flora of West America not present in East America & wonders if they are the result of two Asiatic migrations in different periods. JDH asks Gray's opinion of the last volume of THE LIFE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT & expresses his own surprise at its revelations regarding unconstitutional political manoeuvring by Prince Albert & Queen Victoria, especially in relation to the Crimean War. JDH comments on the reversal in popularity of Gladstone & Disraeli, JDH suspects Gladstone's charges about the ministry intending to help the Turks has moved opinion. JDH is not a Tory but thinks the Liberals have made a mess of things.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-78-02-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
28 February 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 207-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1093

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Baron Ralph Robert Wheeler Lingen
Date:
3 March 1878
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.147, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC257

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Susan Hodgson (nee Townshend)
Date:
10 March 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.95, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Susan Hodgson for a letter about her husband Brian Houghton Hodgson. JDH recently dined with Sir Henry Verney, Childers & his daughter, & Mrs & Mr [William Ewart] Gladstone. He & Gladstone spoke about American & Californian trees & felling practices. JDH has also dined at the Colviles', where he bid farewell to Mrs Strachey before she leaves to join her husband [Richard Strachey] in India. Also in attendance: the Grant's, Joachin & the Huxley's. JDH & his wife [Lady Hyacinth Hooker] have been to see the Old Masters [exhibition], they left the baby [Joseph Symonds Hooker] at the Royal Society rooms with the porter's wife, much fuss was made of 'the President's baby'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11412F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310)
Summary:

Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC649

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 March 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 31, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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