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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1872-1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC Supplementary Foreign Letters Vol. 218
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 101–2
Summary:

Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].

Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Asa Gray]
Date:
--[1872]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

[Letter incomplete. This letter bears no salutation or date & begins mid sentence. The date & recipient of the letter have been surmised from adjacent letters in the series.] JDH writes of a speech given about the work of his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker. At this event JDH's health was given by Colvile, JDH in turn toasted Airys, of whom he has a low opinion. Mentions that he had previously been unaware of 'Park's obliquities'. Provides Asa Gray with references for Agarista from Don & De Candolle. Mentions Gray's feelings about his students passing & compares them to his lingering memories of his sea travels, including an apocryphal story about a retired boatswain. Penstemon palmeri is not featured in the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. Backhouse is selfish about sharing the material Gray sends him. JDH is glad Gray will use Hillebrands seeds. JDH has finished part two of THE FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA with Amantiaceae[?] & Geraniaceae. He lists which orders different botanists will work on for part three. Bennett will do Sernambaceae[?], Ochna, Bursaria; Hiern Meliaceae; JDH Chaetost[oma] & Sabiaceae; Masters Olaceae, Thiselton-Dyer Anacard[iaceae] & Baker Leguminosae. He is also working on the GENERA PLANTARUM, for which George Bentham is doing the Mimoseae.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
1 January 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.281-282, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--[1872]
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.8, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Thiselton-Dyer regarding Norman Lockyer & Alexander MacMillan, respectively editor & Scottish publisher of NATURE; to which JDH has lent his name. Lockyer has not sent JDH a copy of William Carruthers' letter, JDH considers Carruthers' intellect muddled by a 'fear of extinction'. JDH is going to the funeral of an old friend, Archibald Smith of Jordanhill, in Kensal Green the following day. JDH invites Thiselton-Dyer to dine with him & his cousin Francis 'Frank' Palgrave.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 94: 216–17
Summary:

Heartily glad about the news of the Ayrton affair development.

Huxley looks very unwell from too much miscellaneous work; CD wishes he could be made a Director General for transference of British Museum and for other scientific work, as JDH suggests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 103–4
Summary:

William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.

Other family news.

No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.

Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
24 January 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.22, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 218–19
Summary:

Heartily glad about Willy.

Has never had Zizania.

Still has Leersia. He cannot make the beast produce.

What slow coaches the Ministers are about the Ayrton affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
2 February 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.283, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 February 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.6, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks William Thiselton-Dyer his opinion on the qualifications of Mr Archer to fill the chair of Botany at Dublin, vacated by Thiselton-Dyer. JDH has heard Archer is being prevented from applying in deference to Dr Percival Wright.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Feb 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 105–6
Summary:

Sends a communication [missing] from Gov. J. H. Lefroy of Bermuda.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
14 February 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.94, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 or 23] Feb 1872 or [1, 8 or 15] Mar 1872
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Pybus (Professor Frederick) Archive GB186 FP/2/7/35)
Summary:

Suggests a visit to Kew to see the hot houses the following Sunday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Fraser Tolmie
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 February 1872
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC 195 folios 161-162
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
8 March 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.189-191, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 107–8
Summary:

Sends, for signature, a statement approving change in rules of the Leopoldino Academy [Dresden] to be forwarded to CD to sign.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
31 March 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.73, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff to speak in 'the House' [of Commons] on behalf of RBG Kew as its scientific function & JDH's role as Director are under threat from [Acton Smee] Ayrton. [Ayrton Controversy]. JDH has attended a committee meeting of the Cabinet at Lord Rippon's, attended by Rippon, Lord Halifax & Mr Cardwell. Ipecacuanha has been introduced to Sikkim, India: propagated from plant RBG Kew sent out in 1866. The Edinburgh plants are still at Calcutta [Kolkata].

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
25 April 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.130, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:

Does not know Dr Mahoney.

Thanks CD for offer of photographs.

His mother’s health is no worse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project