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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
28 March 1840
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH apologises for not writing to his grandfather, Joseph Hooker senior, from St Helena. He describes the hierarchy & his daily routine on the ship [HMS 'Erebus']. After breakfast he tends to the sick then takes meteorological observation for the Captain [James Clark Ross] & studies German. After the midday meal he checks the towing nets & after dinner draws & describes specimens & writes his journal & notes. JDH takes the dew point every day. At sea they communicate with sister ship HMS 'Terror' once a month in person & the ships exchange information on their position regularly by signal. A recent dredging near the shore gathered 30 different species of marine animals: corals, shrimp, crab, worms & sponges but no sea weed or submarine vegetation. The Captain sounds every day with a whale line & takes readings from the water at different depths using various instruments incl. a Massey's log. The deepest they have reached is 2477 fathoms & often the sea is too deep to reach the bottom. Sounding at 500 fathoms requires all the men to haul the line back in, a fiddler plays for encouragement - often Rob Roy. JDH tells his grandfather of the hospitality of the Muir family & an invitation from Andrew Johnson to his house, the 'Palle', near Funchal, Madeira. Discusses the diminishing provisions on the long cruise between St Helena & the Cape de Verde & the rations allowed to each man incl. a 'gill of grog' & lemon juice to prevent scurvy. The captain arranged a Christmas dinner & New Year's party. On Sundays there is a church service on the lower deck. The artillery officer, Wilmot, left to take charge of the Cape Observatory & some passengers have also disembarked leaving more room for the naturalists to work. JDH describes how he maintains & stores his plant specimen collection. JDH heard about the deaths of Allan Cunningham & Duke of Bedford from Mr Bowie of the Ludwigsburgh Garden. JDH asks for books in German to be sent to him at Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania].

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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 June 1857
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a copy of extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 73-4
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
10 September 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 October 1857
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 74
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 January 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter inserted before f. 44
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 June 1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For published extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 74
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 August 1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 91, 214-15
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 October 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 December 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70, un-numbered folio, bound between L58.10.15 and L59.02.14
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 December 1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 91
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
14 February 1859
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 October 1859
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 November 1859
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 December 1859
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
16 January 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
17 March 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
20 April 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 May 1860
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
June 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter after f. 45
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
24 August 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter after f. 45
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