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DCP-LETT-12338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4)
Summary:

Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.

Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.

Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-12-04a

From:
Henry Sheffield
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 December 1879
Source of text:
No 61, p.520, unit 4, VPRS 802, Librarian's outward registered correspondence, 1864-1957, VA 913 Public Library of Victoria, Public Record Office, Victoria.Similar letters were sent to seven recipients
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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

DCP-LETT-12352

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 197–8)
Summary:

Wants some apheliotropic plants for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-12-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 December 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 250
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-12-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 December 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 251
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-12-31a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
31 December 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 252
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC420

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 December 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir Wiliam Turner Thiselton-Dyer about their mutual poor health. His own health is improving although he still has rheumatic pains & trouble breathing outside. He is keen to get back to work at RBG Kew. JDH is glad that Hubble is gone. He criticizes [John] Smith's tendency to give new untried [RBG Kew] staff the same salary as the experienced men they replace & blames it on his class. JDH is going to wtie to Smith about some other staff: Sharpe, Martin & Masters. He thinks that they need better management of their foremen & suggests [William] Watson. JDH thinks the qualities needed are an outdoor gardener who knows ornamental horticulture, will notice his subordinates deficiencies, which Smith does not, & who will oversee expenditure on labour, materials & plants. Such a man would be worth a good salary. Though JDH fears they would be too qualified & ambitious to remain a foreman. JDH refers to [John Hutton] Balfour selecting a man [to be his successor as Her Majesty's Botanist?]. JDH asks if [Philip Henry Wodehouse] Currie has replied to his letter, JDH forgot to send Currie the promised box of seeds for Cyprus.

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Hooker Project
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