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JHC1386

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 January 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.180, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC421

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 January 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.66, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] about the schemes of [Sir George Christopher Molesworth] Birdwood and the India Office. He mentiosn Baddely. He advises WTTD on how to manage [John Reader] Jackson. JDH speculates on the amount of work it will take to accession the India Museum collections into the RBG Kew museums including the constrcution of new buildings: museum number 1 & museum number 2. He appreciates WTTD's zeal on the matter but warns him that these things usually move slowly thanks to 'indifferent masters'. JDH will take some work off WTD's hands when he returns, JDH cannot spend all his time working on the GENERA PLANTARUM & FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, he must take on some of the less pleasant duties as well. He reminds WTTD that the fruit of all his labours can be seen in the [Annual Kew] Report. JDH has written to [John] Smith about RBG Kew staff changes & reassignment of gardening duties, specifically regarding Martin, Trueman, Sharpe & the latter's dereliction of number 4 greenhouse. JDH's health has deteriorated again but he will return to RBG Kew any way.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-80-01-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
8 January 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 253
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12411F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 311)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of bananas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC681

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 January 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 57, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC682

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 January 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 58, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200)
Summary:

Thanks for cotton seeds.

Germination of Megarrhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12431

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2)
Summary:

Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC174

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 January 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.68-69, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Peabody & Co of the United States of America have sent JDH some money, an unexpected remittance of funds deposited with them for his trip in America. JDH tells Asa Gray he is particularly grateful for it as he is trying to raise £800 to set up his son Charles Paget Hooker as a partner in a medical practice in Norfolk. The practice in Coltishall is the same one previously owned by JDH's brother in law, Thomas Evans Lombe, & by a great uncle of JDH's in the previous century. Mentions Gray's correspondence with Henslow. RBG Kew is getting 36 tons of Indian wood & other 'vegetable produce' from the India Store Department. The material is to be accommodated by the RBG Kew museums, necessitating a complete rearrangement, & Sargent would also like a share. Over the last 30 years there has been over collecting of all sorts of things in India due to bad management by the India Museum authorities. He gives the example of Cashmere shawls being left unpacked to ruin in cases. JDH is concerned about the deteriorating production quality of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE which is not doing justice to the work of the new artist, Mr Barnard. It is published by Reeve & Co who have a bad reputation amongst the trade & craftsmen, e.g. lithographers & printers, for being miserly. Spencer Moore has been dismissed from the RBG Kew herbarium for 'gross insubordination & insolence', JDH calls him 'a lunatic'. Baker is going to work on the Agaves & Fourcroyas. [James Edward Tierney] Aitchison has a lot of news & good things from Afghanistan.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1558

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
22 January 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.43, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4)
Summary:

Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1739

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
7 February 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.17, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1490

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
11 February 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.299-300, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12485

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722)
Summary:

CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-80-02-18c

From:
Carl Groener
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 February 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 297.Receipt enclosed in M to J. Hooker, 16 March 1881. See M to C. Chantre, 9 June 1880 and M to J. Hooker, 4 December 1880
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-80-02-18b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
18 February 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 254
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-80-03-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
3 March 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1871-81. ff. 258-259
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC992

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gwyn Jeffreys
Date:
8 March 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/17 f.81, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC684

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 March 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 59, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-80-03-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
16 March 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 260-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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