Possible legal proceedings in a case involving non-payment by a customer to his sister-in-law Flora (Mitten). Rough plan of dining, kitchen, hall and drawing rooms [of "Old Orchard", Broadstone] in pencil on top half of last page.
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Colour plates of Wolf's "Labrador Falcon" and his own of eggs; William's career prospects. Enclosure to ARW to William, 20 Jun 1907.
William's career, enclosing a letter from H E Dresser; a note for Russell [Rollo] [note not enclosed]; dimensions and cost of land for garden, land rental costs.
JDH acknowledges Sir William Thiselton-Dyers congratulations on his 'Swedish award' [Commemorative Gold Medal presented by the Regia Academia Scientiarum Suecica, Uppsala for the Linnean Bicentenary]. Some correspondence from Sir Edward Grey transmitted with the medal may be published in the BULLETIN OF MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. JDH goes on to mention those who will be attending his birthday celebration: a deputation from the B.S. [Botanical Society of London?], his granddaughter Frances Harriet Thiselton-Dyer, Harrinay[?], his children Grace Ellen Hooker & William Henslow Hooker & his cousin; botanical artist Matilda Smith. Hopefully RBG Kew Director David Prain will also attend. They will miss Harriet Thiselton-Dyer's company. JDH fears his wife Lady Hyacinth Hooker may be too unwell for the gathering as she suffers with gout. JDH has heard from George King that he is still unwell & going from Wales to stay with his friend [David Douglas] Cunningham in Torquay. JDH reports that Sir Richard Strachey has 'come down in the world' & been forced to sell his house in Lancaster Gate & retire to Hampstead, JDH is very sad for his old, infirm friend.
The [Essex] Club; gardening; lawyers fees, estate duty, valuations; proposal to buy Consols.
JDH acknowledges receipt of a document from the Royal Bavarian Academy [of Sciences and Humanities] congratulating him on his 90th birthday. He addresses his thanks for the flattering & aesthetically lovely document to the President of the Society: Karl Theodore von Heigel.
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JDH thanks Otto Stapf for the greetings the latter conveyed on behalf of all the RBG Kew herbarium staff on the occasion of JDH's 90th birthday. He looks back on his time working in the herbarium and library of Kew as 'the happiest of my scientific life' and places great value on the work done by all the dedicated employees, without whom he could not have completed his own labours. He asks that his thanks be past to the staff along with the sentiment that JDH believes in ' he enduring scientific value & the renown of the unique establishment entrusted to their care'.
Sending a cutting from the Daily News 16/707. Can Poulton get pupils and friends at Oxford who are acquainted with continental opinion to reply to the author of the cutting? Gossip about Birch's travels. Darwinism in America. W. H. Towers on evolution.
William's lodgings at Saltburn; Hardwicke & Blaber and legal proceedings relating to Dr Scott; surface temperature of Mars; has written to Prof Barrett of Dublin.
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Glad that Poulton's new book on Evolution is nearly completed. Hopes it will do something to expose the fallacies of the "mutationists" and the "mendelians." Lock's book on Variation, Heredity and Evolution. Criticisms of theory of mutation, and comments on mendelism. More about Fred Birch.
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