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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.26, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH advises Sir William Thiselton-Dyer not to despair of the Linnean Society. He states that it is for younger men to take the society forward. He is encouraged by the accession of new members. He has given Allman his approval of [John] Gwyn Jeffreys as the Treasurer. JDH is making geological observations in the Malverns & Cotswolds with [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds. JDH thinks tickets have been sent to 'all the men...[Thiselton-Dyer] mentions'. Either JDH or White can provide ticket to the Royal Society soiree for Mr Vines.

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that he has 'caught' a lord who wants to become a member of the Linnean Society: Lord Arthur Russell M.P.. Wallace of Colchester also hopes to join soon. JDH mentions that Charles Lyell's family are pleased he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey even though it will cost them £300. JDH is sending Reeve [his publisher] statement of correction for the FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA.

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.29, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Sir William Turner Thiseton-Dyer for his offer to assist JDH with the Macmillan Science Primer [BOTANY]. JDH's plan for the book is to write a series of short introductions to plants incl. some on physiology. The book would be in two parts: facts for the pupil & things they must observe for themselves. JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer to help him write the physiology introductions, he has already written one on cell contents but thinks Thiselton-Dyer could do it better.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 1
Summary:

Disapproves of Huxley’s article [review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie] in Academy [7 (1875): 16–18].

Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 2–3
Summary:

Huxley strongly dissuades JDH from writing to Mivart because of his Presidency of Royal Society. JDH will hold his letter until he hears what Bentham says.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 4–5
Summary:

Tyndall, T. A. Hirst and Spencer dissuade him from writing to Mivart, but he will let him feel his disapproval.

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Earl Stafford Henry Northcote
Date:
8 January 1875
Source of text:
JDH/1/16 f.54, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
12 January 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.268-271, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 6–8
Summary:

Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 9–10
Summary:

JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.

Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 January 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.49, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is behind with correspondence as usual, he has been promised some assistance by the Treasury. He thanks Asa Gray for delicate notice of JDH's wife. States Romneya seeds are acceptable. Describes the recent poor health of [Charles] Lyell, including epileptic fits. Mentions books for the Linnean & Horticultural Societies. Sargent has written & JDH has received his trees. Expresses how touched he is by Mrs Gray's letter to his sister. Notes Sechium is: 'all right'. The Catalogue of Scientific Papers is on the agenda for the next Library[?] meeting. From what Henry has written JDH is not clear whether the collections of [William] Jameson were bought or lent. Jameson died on the road from Guayaquil to Quito, he was over 80 & did not have sufficient money or food for the trip. Jameson's family did not support his botanising, he had family in Quito & Dundee & his representative is probably a son who was living in Chile. JDH asks that this letter be forwarded to Miss Grace Ellis, a friend of Tyndale. Tyndale has sent JDH some "wood-hangings".

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 11–13
Summary:

Has met Capt. George Strong Nares of the Challenger expedition at Huxley’s.

Huxley much at a loss to explain red clay at deep sea-bottom.

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 February 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he is very busy & feeling the weight of his responsibilities. Hs main concern is [his daughter] Harriet Hooker's health. She will be sent to the South of France, probably to stay with friends in Cannes, later JDH will join her & they will travel to Algiers to visit Colonel Playfair. JDH & Playfair will make a tour of Algiers from April to May [1875]. JDH's Aunt, Mrs Dawson Turner of Liverpool, will keep the house whilst JDH is away. Her children have been guests of JDH as they have no house, their father Dawson William Turner is in confinement but will soon be out & JDH hopes to send him on a long voyage 'to secure his health'. JDH has found that Elliottia is synonymous with Tripetaleia of Japan. He continues to work on GENERA PLANTARUM, currently struggling with Sapotaceae. Mentions that Miguel has made omissions of [Richard] Spruce & [George] Gardner in the FLORA BRASILIENSIS. Asks Gray for specimens of Shortia, he has kept it distinct from Schizocodon following [Carl Johann] Maximovicz, whose work he admires. By contrast he does not like the way Baillon works.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 14–15
Summary:

Lyell very ill.

No two specimens of Glaucium are alike.

Lord Henry [Lennox] still burkes JDH’s application.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 16–19
Summary:

On Lyell’s death; JDH has arranged for burial in Westminster Abbey. His thoughts on a testimonial.

More trouble with Lord Henry Lennox.

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 February 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.51, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has received Asa Gray's letter of 12 Feb [1875]. He reports that his great friend [Sir Charles] Lyell is dead. JDH got up a petition for Lyell's burial in Westminster Abbey, signed by fellows of the Royal, Linnean & Geological Societies, & Stanley has as good as offered this honour. Lyell's brother died 3 weeks earlier. Mentions Gray's rheumatism. Dismisses Mrs Sullivant & advises Gray to do the same. Gray's request for catalogues of scientific papers has not yet come before the Royal Society Library Committee. JDH is sending Gray's herbarium [Harvard University Herbarium] a copy as a gift from himself, the cost will be more than covered by the sale of Gay's duplicate specimens so he will also send the SYNOPSIS FILICUM & Plate III of FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA. Accepts Gray's offer of Jamaican plants, though he cannot be certain they are new. [George] Bentham seems well but is plagued by sudden attacks of diarrhoea. In an additional annotation JDH mentions the [William] Carruthers affair & that: 'Nathaniel Lindley is Counsel for the King'.

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
27 February 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.10-11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
5 March 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.241-244, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 20–1
Summary:

No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.

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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
25 March 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.245-246, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

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