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JHC139

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
--[1857]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.10-11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for his letter & review of [Rev. Miles Joseph] Berkeley. Berkeley will not like Gray's review or JDH's in JOURNAL OF BOTANY. JDH comments on Gray's criticism of his ideas on physiology, comparing them to a firework, and to his own less ordered style of critique. Declares that he will not take account of a 'vital force' until anyone else does. Compares American & British terminology i.e. in the United States physiology is synonymous with biology. Discusses nomenclature & the use of the English 'anth' in names such as Ranunculanths, compared to using the suffixes: 'ads' or 'worts' in place of aceae. This was started by [John Stevens] Henslow & despite misgivings JDH has advised [George] Bentham to retain them as they are now effectively sanctioned by the government; being used in the National Schools. He asks Gray not to deter Bentham from using the system as it is the current vogue & it is hard enough to get government to publish such books for the amateur, & this class of people cares a great deal about terminology. JDH thinks [John] Lindley is correct to refer Podostemons to near Lentibulariaceae though he previously thought their place was with Scrophulariaceae.

Contributor:
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JHC1421

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1857?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.217, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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FVM-57-01-11

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

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FVM-57-01-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
19 January 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 156
Summary:

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FVM-57-01-21

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 January 1857
Source of text:
No. 106, unit 1, p. 36, VPRS 1187.outward correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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FVM-57-02-01a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Pasley
Date:
1 February 1857
Source of text:
No. 652, unit 3, p. 62, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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FVM-57-02-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
1 February 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 157
Summary:

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FVM-57-02-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Pasley
Date:
26 February 1857
Source of text:
No. 1163, unit 3, p. 81, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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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
Summary:

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Contributor:
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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
Summary:

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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
Summary:

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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
Summary:

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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
Summary:

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Contributor:
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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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FVM-57-04-06a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
6 April 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 159.Three small watercolours by Thomas Baines are attached to this letter. One is published as the frontispiece of Volume 1 of Regardfully Yours
Summary:

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FVM-57-04-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
11 April 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 160
Summary:

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Contributor:
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JHC1078

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
13 April 1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.159, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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FVM-57-04-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Duffy
Date:
18 April 1857
Source of text:
No. 2144, unit 3, p. 117, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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JHC1336

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 April 1857?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.120-121, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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FVM-57-05-01a

From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 May 1857
Source of text:
No. 57/1202, unit 3, p. 14, VPRS 975/P1 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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