From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.111-112, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
Will get name of grass [see 6243] from Gen. William Munro.
Has heard from Charles Wheatstone that CD has Prussian Order of Merit. Rejoices because it is the only distinction worth a fig.
Went to Handel festival; heard Messiah.
Went to poor old N. B. Ward’s funeral.
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.