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JHC112

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
25 August 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.299-301, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC114

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
24 September 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.308-310, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is travelling again. He has written to Humboldt, who mentioned JDH in his ASPECTS OF NATURE. JDH has received letter from WJH reporting safe arrival of his collections & also letter from Jock Smith on progress of Rhododendrons. JDH is collecting seeds for WJH as well as tree ferns, incl. three Alsophila & one with the coriaceous frond pinnate of Blechnum. He does not have much seed of Taenitis. [Hugh] Falconer [HF] informed JDH that Colvile was ill but recovered, however [Archibald] Campbell wrote that [Brian Houghton] Hodgson is still sick & his mind 'out of order'. JDH is now east of China & adding a lot to his collection, especially grasses, ferns & Orchideae with the recent addition of some Labiatae & Compositae & the expectation of Nepenthes. He has found a Geniosporum that smells of Patchouli & a Plectranthus patchouli that doesn't. HF says Kashmir shawls are scented with Kortus not Patchouli. The last Kew Annual JDH has is from Feb. JDH will send two Podostemon spp. He discusses Triurideae with reference to Mier's paper & Gardner & Lindley attributing them to Naiads or Smilacineae based on the characteristics of their albumin. JDH has found Nymphaea & Griffith's floating Eriocaulon in marshland but not his Hydropeltis. He mentions the presence of oaks. JDH writes about Jung Bahadur [Prime Minister of Nepal]: his character & expectations of meeting the Queen, & the tendency of 'orientals' to kill family members to gain positions of power. JDH asks about the distribution of Griffith's collections. He questions whether WJH has confused two species of Balanophora with the two sexes & a third with Phaeocordylis.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC115

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
21 October 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.311-312, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC116

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
26 November 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.313-314, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP6665

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
31 December 1850
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: KMDC10180
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC118

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1 January 1851
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.317-318, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has been in Chittagong about a week & been welcomed by Mr Sconce, a judge & relation of [Thomas] Thomson [TT], & by the Latours who are civil servants. Sconce grows coffee, tea & pepper & makes bandages from Callicarpa bark. For the museum JDH is sending: articles made of common Mura at the convent, Gurjan oil made from Dipterocarpus, & curious items from Sylhet. En route to Chittagong JDH stopped at Noakolly at the mouth of the Megna & stayed with Dr Baker, a wealthy man on the Government Salt Commission. Baker's wife knows about Suffolk & Halesworth & remembers JDH as a baby. JDH has not received WJH’s letter about Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. TT goes home by the Feb Steamer, JDH may go with him or to Arracan [Arakan, Burma]. Maria told TT's sister WJH had been ill. JDH has declined Colvile's offer to go to Nepal as physician to Lord Grosvenor. JDH is disappointed there is no maritime vegetation in Chittagong, no Mangrove, Avicennias, Rhyzphora [Rhizophora] or even herbaceous salt water plants other than Ipomoea pes Caprae. Inland there is hill & forest vegetation & JDH & TT have collected 300 species in the scrub near the station incl. Linastoma, Memecylon, Rubiaceae, Jasmine & Calamus. Further inland they hope to find palms. The only person in the area interested in plants is Mrs Captain Mathison, formerly Miss Chapman, daughter of a naval officer at Lowestoft. It has been a long time since JDH got any botanical news. Reeve has asked, secretly, for names of people who will subscribe to a lithograph of [William] Tayler's portrait of JDH. There was bad weather on the voyage from Sylhet, some dried Orchideae were damaged but JDH is used to this after Sikkim & is trying to recover them. JDH will write to WJH by the Marseille mail.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC119

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
13 January 1851
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.319-320, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-1390

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
17 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encloses letter from J. D. Hooker. Glad he will soon be home.

Everyone will be astonished at oaks and birches of tropics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC120

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
13 March 1851
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.321, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP6664

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
17 September 1851
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: KMDC1556
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP6663

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
27 June 1853
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: KMDC1558
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP6668

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
17 September 1853
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: KMDC1559
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5527

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
5 January 1855
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC71 folio 372
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4281

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1856?
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1856). On the bamboo and durian of Borneo. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany : 8 (8): 225-230
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5524

From:
Charles Samuel Pollock Parish
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
6 May 1857
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC56 folio 306
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

HENSLOW-1153

From:
W. J. Hooker
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 December 1857
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
[30 July 1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence S. American letters 1852–8, 38: 148)
Summary:

Thanks WJH for an extract on seed transport by sea. [Letter sent with 2314.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8789

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William J. Hooker
Date:
[31 October 1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens
Summary:

Please distinguish between the genus Wellingtonia and the genus Sequoia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10584

From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.462
Summary:

Regarding the reasons for the confusion in the nomenclature of the genus Wellingtonia and Sequoia. Comments on the aquatic Anacharis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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