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JHC167

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 March 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.56-57, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has invited Judge Hastings & family to lunch. JDH currently working on GENERA PLANTARUM & proofs of FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, with the sub-par help of Baker. JDH sending Asa Gray a copy of his [SCIENCE] PRIMER[: BOTANY] for critique. Looks forward to seeing the synoptic sample of Gray's FLORA BOREALIS AMERICANA. JDH would like to visit Gray but cannot leave his family with nobody to care for them. Thinks he must marry again. His daughter, Harriet [Anne Hooker] is ill & has been staying with the Munros near Taunton & her aunt, JDH's sister, in Torquay. Mentions Tyndall's marriage: ceremony performed by Dean Stanley, hopes the new Mrs Tyndall will be a good influence. Lady Augusta died the day after the wedding & the flowers JDH sent for the wedding became wreaths for a coffin. [Sir E. Ray] Lankester has been voted into the Linnean Society despite Carruther's opposition. Comments on George Allman as president of the Linnean Society & his own wish to resign the Vice President-ship. Mentions sending ROYAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS & clavis of Nyctago[?] to Gray. Reports on the progress of getting the new Herbarium building approved & constructed. It transpires the site & present herbarium house belong to RBG Kew having been sold by King George IV, meaning subsequent monarchs William IV & Queen Victoria never actually owned Hanover House. The existing building will become a library, as originally intended by Joseph Banks, & an extension built for the herbarium. JDH is called away to work on the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC629

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 April 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 12, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC630

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
27 April 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 13, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1075

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16?-5?-1876?
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 16, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No Summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC631

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 May 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 14, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1076

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 June 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 17, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC632

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 June 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 15, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC633

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 July 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 18, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Aug 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (112)
Summary:

AG’s Darwiniana [1876].

Cross and self-fertilisation has now gone to press.

Is preparing new edition of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC168

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.58, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH & his wife [Hyacinth Hooker] have just returned from their honeymoon to North Wales where they climbed Cadair Idris & Snowdon. They also went to the Botanical Association at Glasgow where they & George Bentham stayed with JDH's niece Mrs Campbell. The married tour continued around Scotland to the Clyde, some of JDH's 'old haunts' on Loch Lomond & Inveray [Inveraray], Loch Awe via Crinan, Oban via Ben Cruachan, Skye, Gari Loch [Gairloch], Loch Maree, Dingwall, Inverness, Forres, Rothiemurchus, Stirling, to stay with the McGilvrays at Bridge of Allan & with Brian Houghton Hodgson in Gloucestershire & another visit in Worcestershire. Hyacinth Hooker proved an excellent walker & climber, enduring a long walk through the bogs in Skye, a 25 mile walk to a church in the Cuchillins [Cuillin], & a trek to 2000 feet over Loch Coruisk. He wonders whether Mrs [Jane Loring] Gray is an equally robust walker. JDH has found that he is very compatible with his new wife, she has a genuine interest in plants & will make an excellent step mother. Discusses the correct author attributions for Tripetalia & Tuckermannia. Olvey[?] has not turned up. Thanks Gray for Abies fraseri cones & asks what soil they should be grown in. JDH will begin working on his Anniversary Address for the Royal Society. Thanks Gray for a cheque for Gay's plants.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10656

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (113)
Summary:

Is sending sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. He will be curious to see what AG thinks of it, as AG speaks the truth whether or not he approves. Is sick of trying to correct his "horrid bad style".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 [Nov 1876]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (130c)
Summary:

Sends some sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC169

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 November 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.59-60, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for a letter of 16 Oct pointing out a mistake in a plant description, the plant as identified incorrectly by Thompson & [John Gilbert] Baker & JDH missed the mistake in the absence of [Daniel] Oliver. JDH asks Gray to explain why he has kept D. elegans & D. puchella [pulchella?] separate as it is not clear from Gray's BOTANY OF CALIFORNIA. Baker & Oliver are certain Gray is wrong about an Iris. Baker is progressing fast with the Mauritian flora. Bennett has bequeathed RBG Kew a share of the Brownian Australia Herbarium. George Bentham is working on Cyperaceae & waiting for Muller to send Australian specimens. Munro is working on Gramineae for Alphonse De Candolle. JDH is busy with Royal Society affairs & preparing his Royal Society Presidential Anniversary Address. Discusses a dispute between the British Museum & Sir Wyville Thomson over distribution & publication of the Challenger expedition collections. The expedition was arranged by the Royal Society so they will adjudicate the dispute on behalf of the government. JDH is strongly against the collections going to the British Museum but is in a difficult position regarding the dispute as he is a Trustee of the British Museum as well as President of the Royal Society & Director of RBG Kew. JDH states that Richard Owen [Superintendant of the natural history department of the British Museum] is unpopular. JDH incredulously cites a claim Owen made to the Treasury that the Keepers of Botany at the British Museum, from Robert Brown to William Carruthers, were responsible for describing the plants collected on Government expeditions dating from the voyages of James Cooke & Matthew Flinders to Berthold Carl Seemann. JDH is especially busy as Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer is on holiday in Italy.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
27 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (114)
Summary:

Thanks for a correction. Hopes AG now has all the sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (115)
Summary:

Plans to republish his paper on dimorphism with additions [Forms of flowers]. Is convinced it is necessary to compare pollen-grains and the state of the stigma to recognise dimorphic plants. Requests specific plants to test for dimorphism and would welcome examples from any family in which he has not encountered dimorphic species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10728

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (116)
Summary:

Thanks for information about Hottonia.

Has found dimorphism in Forsythia.

Considers AG’s arguments on different terms for dimorphism, but cannot change to using the proposed new term [see 10699].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118)
Summary:

Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].

Is glad of the notice about black pigs.

Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;

thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10811

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (120)
Summary:

Thanks AG for card about Pontederia.

Asks for specimens of Phlox subulata and Gilia aggregata to check for dimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC170

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 February 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.61, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is busy working on a new edition of his STUDENT'S FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES he compares the delineation of species in the flora to that in Asa Gray's MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES. JDH consults Gray on whether Gymnosperms should be a subclass of Dicotyledons or a group equal to all other Phaenogams? Joseph Decaisne, Gray & JDH favour the former position, Daniel Oliver & William Thiselton-Dyer the latter. Gnetum, esp. Formation of the embryo, will be key in determining the correct arrangement. JDH has sent the corrected SCIENCE PRIMER: BOTANY to the press, he would find such works easier to write if he also lectured. Life with his new wife Hyacinth Hooker is good & his future looks bright though sad times behind him make him doubt its security. JDH's sister Mrs Elizabeth Evans-Lombe, née Hooker is suffering less from neuralgia & melancholy. George Bentham is well. Oliver is working on the African flora, & Moore[?] is working on grasses. Asks if Charles Sprague Sargent can send American Southern Bamboo.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10851

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (122)
Summary:

Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].

Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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