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JHC655

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 May 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 35, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC656

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 36, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC657

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 37, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (124)
Summary:

Climbing plants.

Requests seeds of Echinocystis lobata for Hugo de Vries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC172

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.64-65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes that he & his wife, Hyacinth, are in Ireland. Killarney weather is terrible. JDH comments on absence from Dublin of [William Henry] Harvey & [Edward] Wright but notes David Moore is keeping the botanic garden well. Has recently been in touch with: [Daniel] Hanbury, Charles Dwight Marsh, Robert Lambourne & George Davidson of the Pacific Coast Survey. Discusses his work on the genus Amaranth for the GENERA PLANTARUM, he has referred to Martius' work. JDH gives news of his family: his sister Maria [McGilvray] & husband are unwell, 1 of their children is a tea planter in India. Hooker's son Charles Paget Hooker has failed his medical exams. Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker has gone to Barmen to study German & will then go to School of Mines. John Smith [Curator of Kew] has been seriously unwell, William Thiselton-Dyer has been left in charge of RBG Kew. Mentions: a letter to Wesley; the opinion of [Harvey Wilson] Harkness & [John] Muir on Sequoia trunks; & the Miocene flora of Iceland. Discusses geology, specifically his & Gray's differing opinions on glacial formation of granite valleys in the USA & contemporary formation of land masses. Discusses biogeography: Gray's thinking on commonalities in the Greenland & North American Flora. Disputes the correct classification of: Draba streptocarpa, Arenaria uliginosa & A. rossii. Discusses the correct name of the Cypress Point [California] Cupressus; is it a form of common American tree C. macrocarpa? C. goveniana is different & C. macnabiana still uncertain. Mentions C. lambertiana seed collected by Ruprecht possibly on Krusenstern's expedition. Disagrees with Gray, re. climate & the relative importance of the equator & poles. Does not understand why Gray has called Olive a deciduous tree, or his comments on drought. Mentions specimens of a Texas Amaranth. Discusses Gray's book INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGY & CLASSIFICATION, [Julius von] Sachs history of botany & politician Sir Trevor Lawrence's motion about opening Kew.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC658

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 38, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC659

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 39, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC660

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 40, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC661

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 October 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 41, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker 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

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

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

JHC667

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 January 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 46, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

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
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