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JHC1745

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
13 May 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.23, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC689

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mr Sereno Watson
Date:
26 June 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 64, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC691

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mr Sereno Watson
Date:
28 July 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 66, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC978

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Date:
27 August 1881
Source of text:
M. C. COOKE PAPERS COO f.17, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC433

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 September 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.77, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer about the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which he is attending in York. He reports that John Lubbock's address was well received & that Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff is present but unwell. JDH's section of the meeting, on geography, has had some bad papers & speakers, he mentions particularly Trelawney Saunders. A polemical sermon was given at the meeting by the Bishop of Manchester, which JDH felt unnecessary as nobody had 'trodden on toes theological'. He also criticizes Osbourne Reynolds' lecture on rain & hail.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC434

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 September 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.78, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] of various deliveries & correspondence received or anticipated at RBG Kew & notifies him of RBG Kew plants received elsewhere. Some Madras matting has come for John Reader Jackson [of the RBG Kew museum]. JDH has sent some things to Regel. Treub has received his case & is returning it to RBG Kew filled with Dischidia rafflesiana & Kaulfussia. Daniel Morris written, announcing the safe arrival of 2 Wardian Cases from Nancy & expressing his pleasure at the growth of Landolphias in Jamaica. Mr [Johannes Eugenius Bulow] Warming is sending dried Cycad leaves for WTTD, Cameron is sending C. circinalis from the jungles of Deecan, & Kirk a box of bulbs. Arenga saccharifera arrived in the Bahamas in good condition. The Athens Consul is sending Salvia apples from [Theodor Heinrich Hermann von] Heldreich & a footstool of stems of Ferula communis. Alfred Russel Wallace is sending some more Herbaceous plants. JDH declined to supply the Jamaica men with outfits on the behalf of the C.O. [Colonial Office?]. King's cases have arrived but only Magnolia sphenocarpa is in a fit state. Espeut is angling for RBG Kew to recommend his bananas. Henry Trimen has written complaining about his staffing problems at 'Haggalla' [Hakgala] Garden; where Clarke is ill with Typhus. Horne has sent WTTD a copy of his new book. Frederick Currey has died, he left his fungi to RBG Kew.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC435

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 September 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.79, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD], who is in Gavernie, [France]. Since WTTD left, RBG Kew has had many visitors: the French Royal family including JDH's 'old acquaintances' the Comte de Paris & Duc de Chartres, also [George] Bentham's family & Madame Ragnal. The death of [Algernon Freeman-] Mitford's father in law in Denver, Colorado will delay Mitford coming to RBG Kew. Reports that the Palms in the Palm House have recovered after over heating. A box of Cycad leaves has arrived for WTTD from Denmark also Bangalore Cycas specimens from Cameron & 2 cases of palms from Thornton. [Ferdinand von] Mueller, whom JDH calls 'little better than a lunatic', sent some Andersonias; blue flowered Epacridaceae to be figured in the Magazine [CURTIS'S BTOANICAL MAGAZINE?] but all arrived dead. JDH summarises his correspondence with Maw regarding rock gardens. John Smith, [Kew Curator] will soon return from Cornwall, but he need not as JDH gets on well with his deputy George Nicholson & William Watson is also doing well. JDH, in agreement with Walters, has dismissed 2 lads he found messing around in the Palm House. [William] Nock has not yet turned up [at Hakgala, Sri Lanka]. [James] Zohrab has visited RBG Kew, he expects to go to St Thomas, [Danish West Indies, now the United States Virgin Islands]. JDH has not received the 'Report' & has written to Reid. JDH gathers from the newspapers that Colonel Johnston is in India. JDH hopes that Watt will go to Manipur. JDH describes what a struggle it has been for him & his father, William Jackson Hooker, to develop the RBG Kew herbarium over the last 40 years, with the British Museum [of Natural History] as an impediment. Things have improved for Henry Trimen at Hakgala Garden, [Sri Lanka], & he has received the Landolphias & Cinchonas. [Daniel] Morris also received his cases in good order. JDH is working hard in the arboretum & praises Nicholson's work there. JDH must give his list of palm genera to [George] Bentham.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1492

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
18 November 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.302, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1493

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
15 December 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.303, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC436

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 December 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.80, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes, in response to a letter from Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD], that he is disappointed by the decision of the Board regarding Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel [and the updating of the Nomenclator Botanicus]. JDH advises WTTD to be cautious in appealing to the Board for resources for the Cryptogamic department until it is known how the division of labour on Cryptogams will fall between RBG Kew & the British Museum [of Natural History] under Lefever. JDH also speculates that Algernon Freeman-Mitford may not be first Commissioner [of Works] much longer & this may have a bearing on the matter. Comments on the length of a biography of [Charles] Lyell & wonders whether Hughes will write up the life of Adam Sedgewick. It was foggy in the Severn Valley the day JDH travelled to Pendock, picking up Harriet [Thiselton-Dyer nee Hooker] on the way, at Gloucester. En route JDH saw Frederick William Waller, who he is thinking about engaging to do some building work. JDH is working on Aroideae, his final contribution to GEBERA PLANTARUM. He finds Heinrich Engler's arrangement of Aroideae unnatural & his descriptions verbose. In a post script JDH thanks WTTD for forwarding a Gas Company receipt.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC437

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
29 December 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.81, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer for his letters & replies to his question regarding Mr Woodbridge's concerns about varnishing Marianne North's pictures. JDH discusses an answer to the Board regarding appointment of a permanent foreman for the Herbaceous ground. JDH is not certain whether Dewar should yet be raised to the position of permanent propagating foreman but they will need someone to take on that role too. JDH cannot understand why the First Commissioner of Works [Algernon Freeman-Mitford] will not answer his letter on the subject. JDH thinks that the erroneous report of [George] Bentham's death arose through the death of Mrs Bentham & has been perpetuated by gossip. JDH has met with Frederick William Waller about building a house & likes what he has seen of his work. JDH [& Lady Hyacinth Hooker] are to have lunch with Sir William Guise at Elmore.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC692

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mr Sereno Watson
Date:
31 December 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 67, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC693

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 January 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 68, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC694

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 March 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 70, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC696

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
31 March 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 71, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1746

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
4 April 1882
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.24-25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC438

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
13 April 1882
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.82, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer regarding a misunderstanding about the building of the Marianne North Gallery at RBG Kew by [John] Lessels & [James] Fergusson. Specifically regarding the vestibule, veranda & some water. JDH also criticizes The Treasury's handling of the matter. He has enjoyed a visit to Barton, he likes his host at Morton Hall [George Duckett Berney] whom he describes as: 'a liberal conservative & enlightened man amongst a neighbourhood sunk in Torydom'. JDH also comments on the decline of farming in the area [Norfolk].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC439

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 May 1882
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.83, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that he is sending him an enclosure which he is very pleased about [enclosure not present or described]. He hopes it will also please Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer nee Hooker & asks for an answer.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC697

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 May 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 72, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC698

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 July 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 73, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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