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JHC463

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 May 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.106, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is pleased that Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] has appointed Allen[?] & asks if he will have Jurd's house. He reports that [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds' health has improved. JDH, [Daniel] Oliver & [John Reader] Jackson have been calculated that it will take 4 years work to revise Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel [NOMENCLATOR BOTANICUS]. JDH may begin working on Euphorbias to go into the manuscript, with occasional visits to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew for this work. JDH comments on a collection which has just arrived from Morocco & offers to send the collector a copy of his & John Ball's publication [of their tour of Morocco]. Sir Hussey Vivian has sent JDH Rhododendron falconeri & R. hodgsonia, they are unfortunately withered but the leaves will go to [George] Nicholson for his arboretum collection. JDH thanks WTTD for sending him plants including Rhododendron edgworthia.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC745

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 May 1887
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 116, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC464

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 May 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.107, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH refers to an enclosed item [not present] which is intended for RBG Kew but would be better suited to the Royal Horticultural Society [RHS]. JDH has received a long letter from John Smith (1798-1888) complaining about the way he was treated by JDH & his father Sir William Jackson Hooker. JDH's father in law Reverend William Samuel Symonds is ill & has delayed coming to 'The Camp', Sunningdale. JDH [& his wife Hyacinth Hooker] are to go & stay with the Tyndales. On his return JDH will meet with Mr Hervey[?] at the herbarium.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC746

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
27 May 1887
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 117, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC747

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 June 1887
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 119, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-000432

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Evans
Date:
18 June 1887
Source of text:
MM/9/11, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC466

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 June 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.109, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] for his assistance, & Huxley's, in getting Inglis Palgrace elected [to the Athenaeum Society]. He also thanks WTTD for sending him letters & news, JDH was glad to hear that the RBG Kew staff were 'well considered in the Abbey'. He hopes the [Kew?] Palace will be 'taken up & done for'. JDH & the Grays [Asa & Jane] had an interesting time in Oxford & Cambridge & Foster was attentive. But the overblown ceremony for giving an honorary degree to the Lord Mayor, a man who did not deserve it, offended JDH & in his opinion debased the university. He blames the V.C. [Vice Chancellor] & is tempted to send a note to NATURE. Recounts the day in Oxford: breakfast at All Souls College, garden party at Worcester college, dinner at [Archibald] Sayce's with 'old Westwood' in attendance. JDH is surprised there was never a second edition of Westwood's entomology book: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. JDH & the Grays visited Nuneham, where JDH looked over Mr Harcourt's letters from [Charles] Darwin but found nothing of importance in them. Also spent an afternoon in the Botanic Garden of the University of Oxford, JDH praises what [Isaac Bayley] Balfour has done in the gardens & his lectures are much admired. Also met 'old Baxter' & Miss Smith who made a faux pas with MacHassy[?] mistaking his badge of the Greek Order of the Redeemer for a Home Rule rosette. The Grays have gone to Dean Chruches, when they return all will go to visit Lord Blachford, JDH's sister [Maria MacGilvray] in Torquay & possibly to the Rosberg's[?].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-000433

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Evans
Date:
27 June 1887
Source of text:
MM/9/12, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC465

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 June 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.108, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] regarding the upcoming election for Sir Robert Harry Francis Inglis Palgrave's entry to the Athenaeum Society. Palgrave is anxious about the election as JDH will not be able to attend. JDH has lobbied for positive votes from Evans, Flower, Huxley, Rutsen & Francis Palgrave & asks that if WTTD attends he induce any 'Savilians' to vote for Palgrave. JDH attended a party at Mr Ruterson's[?] where he met with Reverend & Mrs Adie, Sir & Lady Grant Duff, Mrs Stanley, a daughter of Lowthian Bell. Also [Sir Arthur Dyke?] Acland a Member of Parliament who is on the forestry commission but knows nothing about trees, specifically why European Oak is not planted for timber or what an Acacia tree is under any of its names: Robinia, Pseudacacia, False Acacia, or Locust Tree. JDH will be away for his daughter Harriet [Thiselton-Dyer nee Hooker's] birthday but promises to write & sends an enclosure for her [enclosure not present]. JDH mentions hearing about a telegraph[?] from the RBG Kew Board.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1000

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
30 June 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.4, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC467

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 August 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.110, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is about to leave for France. His party will travel via Le Havre, meet Asa & Jane Gray in Rouen & then go on to Caen, Coutances & Avranches visiting the churches[?] on the way. JDH will return in September, the Grays earlier to attend the British Association for the Advancement of Science. JDH has also been to Devonshire to visit his sister & Lord Blachford [Frederic Rogers] & to see Wistman's Wood. Describes the landscape of Wistman's Wood & instructs that the First Commissioner should ask for a specimen for the RBG Kew museum so they can determine whether the Wood is ancient. The Grays visited the Dukeries [in Nottinghamshire], York & Edinburgh. JDH reports that painting & varnishing has been going on in the herbarium, he is worried about the risk of fire. JDH is painting his own shed with asbestos paint & has great faith in its properties. Is glad Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer enjoyed his holiday in Switzerland & recalls his own trip there, specifically Kandersteg & Gemmi Pass. JDH hopes that Bale, an [herbarium] employee will recover. Discusses [Isaac Bayley] Balfour teaching his advanced botany class by the didactic method, a 'modern' kind of teaching JDH does not agree with. JDH thinks that there should be 2 branches of botanical teaching; 1 for biological research, the other for practical purposes. Comments that the needs of medical students regarding botanical knowledge have changed. JDH notes that he has been before [John] Lubbock's committee. JDH reports on his family. His sister Maria McGilvray has been seriously ill. JDH's children Joey [Joseph Symonds Hooker] & Grace Ellen Hooker are accompanying him to France. Frances & Georgie[?] are not coming because of the heat. [William Samuel] Symonds is getting weaker, he is staying with his sister Mrs Tennant. 'Frank' [Henry Francis] Symonds has been ill in Samoa.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC468

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 September 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.111, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH & family have just returned from France via Cherbourg. They visited Rouen, Caen, Bayeux, St-Lo, Coutances, Avranches & St Michel. Also a sea bathing place called Jullouville 6 [miles] south of Granville, which JDH describes. He found the vegetation there comparable to that of the Yarmouth Denes except there was also an abundance of Eryngium Campestre & Scilla Autumnalis. JDH writes that he like Normandy where he people, agriculture & industry seem prosperous. Asa & Jane Gray were with the Hookers in France for a fortnight before returning to England. JDH does not agree with Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer 'with regard to the Rhododendron argenteum', he refers to his long familiarity with the plant & his original drawings of it. Notes that he has not yet seen 'Jackson's work' [John Reader Jackson?].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC237

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
19 September 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.66, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001659

From:
unknown
To:
Mr Barber
Date:
23 October 1887
Source of text:
MM/21/104, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC748

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 October 1887
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 120, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001660

From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
LC Alexander
Date:
27 October 1887
Source of text:
MM/21/105, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC792

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Michael Foster
Date:
4 November 1887
Source of text:
JDH/1/7 f.18-19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC794

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Michael Foster
Date:
4 November 1887
Source of text:
JDH/1/7 f.20-21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC191

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 November 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/2 f.8-9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC883

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
15 November 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.75, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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