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JHC396

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 October 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.44, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer about his time in Paris. He [& his wife Hyacinth Hooker] could not stay at the Hotel de Famille & have been forced to take rooms at an inferior establishment; Hotel l'Amiral. They have been to the Exhibition [Third Paris World's Fair] where JDH admired the Japanese edibles such as Pteris aquilina in syrup, also a collection of bamboos, the Englsih glass & French artificial flowers but he got bored with the amount of porcelain on show. They have also been to Cluny, a prize giving at the Palais d'Industrie & briefly to an overcrowded ball at the 'Ministre of Agriculture & Commerce'. JDH will go to a speech by the exhibition jurors & to see the Prince at the British Embassy. JDH has met with William Munro & together they will go to the Jardin de Plantes to visit Joseph Decaisne. JDH & Hyacinth dine daily with Mr & Mrs Ragnel, Hyacinth's aunt. Due to rain they will not attend the ball at Versailles. JDH approves of the improvements being made in Paris but finds the city very noisy, smelly & poorly designed for pedestrians. The Palais Royal does not have the quality shops it used to, good jewellery especially is now to be found further West. JDH is worrying about his [Royal Society] Address, he asks WTTD to help him by preparing a list of significant scientific developments. In a post script JDH ads that the Duval Bouillons are: 'so full one cannot get near them'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC397

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 October 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.45, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH agrees that he & Sir William Thiselton-Dyer should pay for [John Reader] Jackson's trip to Paris. JDH advises caution in dealing with [Daniel] Oliver, he believes that seclusion has led to Oliver developing 'erroneous views'. Gunther was proposed for a Royal Medal a year earlier than Oliver. The Exhibition [Exposition Universelle, third Paris World's Fair] will close at the end of November but exhibitors can sell off exhibits from the end of October.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP3814

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 October 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC662

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
-11-1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 42, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FL-1241

From:
Hooker, J. D.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
22 November 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1909
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

JHC1555

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
24 November 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.39, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC399

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 December 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.47, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH provides Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer with the address of Edward Delmar Morgan & asks him to send brochures & an Aponogeton to Edward de Regel there. There is a large party with JDH at Tortwort [Court], incl: Froude & daughter, Martin Theodore & wife, Lord & Lady Somers, Lord Aberdeen & daughter, Mr & Mrs York of Pendock, J Shaw Lefevre & his wife who is Lord Ducie's daughter, Alfred Denison brother of the late Speaker, Mrs Stewart or Stuart. When he returns JDH will arrange to send some Dahlias to Lady Ducie. JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer to send him some leaves of Parrottia [Parrotia persica or Persian ironwood]. He notes that Ducie & Somers are both mad about their gardens & trees. JDH adds in a post script that he saw [Brian Harvey Houghton] Hodgson at the train station, he was going to Chippenham & looked very ill with gout. In a further post script JDH adds that he has visited Hodgson & he looked better.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 477–8
Summary:

Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.

Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11795

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 121–4
Summary:

Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.

Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.

Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1736

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
15 December 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC663

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 43, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:

Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC664

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 44, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC666

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 45, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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