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FVM-57-03-00a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
March 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, bound within letter no.155
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JHC1061

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
?-3-1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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FVM-57-03-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
6 March 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 158.For an edited copy of this letter see B57.13.02, pp. 193-9, 225-30. Editorial changes to sense, plant and place names and major omissions only have been noted here
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FVM-57-03-10

From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 March 1857
Source of text:
No. 57/705, unit 2, p. 228, VPRS 975/P1 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-57-03-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
13 March 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, bound between letters 158 & 159
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JHC138

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 March 1857
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.6-9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for his note of 10 Mar [1857]. Is impatient for LESSONS, apologises for not reviewing the MANUAL in the JOURNAL OF BOTANY. William Jackson Hooker wants JDH to review [Miles Joseph] Berkeley's INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY, JDH praises its content but calls it 'appallingly written & arranged', a common failing of parson-authors such as Sedgwick & Buckland, Copewell[?] & Baden-Powell. An abstract of the Linnean Society's ideas on genera will appear in the LITERARY GAZETTE & a summary by Bentham in the Linnean journal. JDH is critical of the way Germans approach a subject, A. Braun's work on genera is an exemplar. JDH dismisses [Berthold Carl] Seemann's 'twaddle' about genera being objective or subjective, gives Rosa & Salix as examples of the former & Unbellifers as the 'confoundedly bad' latter. Discusses [Thomas] Thomson's paper on germination & embryos of Careya & Barringtonia. JDH worries about Gray doing a book on forest trees. Notes [Richard] Spruce is stranded in Tarapoto, in the Andes, en route to Lima. Mentions UK government expedition to the source of the Missouri & the East Rocky Mountains, [Eugène] Bourgeau is the botanist & the commander Mr Palliser. JDH's children & wife [Frances Hooker] are in Brighton. JDH suggests a visit to the UK would stimulate Gray's work on the Flora of North America. [Walter Hood] Fitch has produced plates of British natural orders, designed by [John Stevens] Henslow, for the National Schools under the Board of Trade. In a post script dated 30 Mar JDH gives a detailed opinion of Gray's ELEMENTS. JDH cannot visit Canada & USA until 1858, he has too much work, with the Indian Herbarium & Tasmanian flora for the Van Diemen's Land government, & not enough money. Comments briefly on Gray's notices in SILLIMAN & at length on De Candolle's botanical geography, referring to the work of de Heer, Henfrey, Brown, Forbe's Atlantis theory & Duchastre's encyclopaedia. Recommends that Gray get the GARDENERS' CHRONICLE.

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