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JHC1023

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
20 September 1891
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.24-24a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1024

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
13 December 1891
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1764

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
28 December 1891
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.43, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC483

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 August 1892
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.126, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH sympathises with Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer over the death of one of his relations of the Buckner family, who was in the military & known by reputation to the Hookers through a Captain Cochrane formerly of China. JDH was also sorry to hear about the illness of [Walter] Gardiner, his great niece's fiancée. The RBG Kew herbarium is running smoothly, several people are away on leave: [William Botting] Hemsley & [John Reader] Jackson, but [Otto] Stapf has returned. Herbarium visitors include Krantztin[?], who is working on Lindley's orchids, & [Arthur] Lister & Miss [Gulielma] Lister working on [Miles Joseph] Berkeley's myxomycetes & doing exquisite drawings. JDH reports that part 18 of the FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA has been published. He complains about the lack of palm specimens, which they should have received from [Odoardo] Beccari & which George King has now requested be sent to RBG Kew from the Calcutta herbarium. JDH is currently working on Pandanus & Typha, which he complains Rohrbach has made unintelligible. He wishes to encourage David Prain to work on Palms, Pandanus & Aroids & to revise William Roxburgh's Flora, irrespective of the good work he has already done on Pedicularis & other Himalayan genera. King is doing valuable work on Annonaceae, Aales & Nutmegs. JDH finds the idea of half Quaker Mrs Hanbury becoming a marchioness very funny. JDH sends his regards to the Balfours & wishes to report to them the state of various plants: Veronica, Goodyera, & JDH's Himalayan Rhododendrons which have suffered for being transplanted on the day of an early frost in 1891.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1025

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir David Prain
Date:
17 August 1892
Source of text:
PRAIN LETTERS PRA f.151, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1027

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir David Prain
Date:
31 August 1892
Source of text:
PRAIN LETTERS PRA f.152, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC484

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 October 1892
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.127, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has received a letter from Admiral Symonds at Torquay asking how he can procure a plant of Rhododendron griffithianum, i.e. aucklnadii. JDH suggests that RBG Kew could give him one in recognition of his support, particularly inducing the Admiralty to extend Gustav Mann's time in Africa. JDH is sorry to hear that Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer may loose Dewar, who saved some of the Pyrola uniflora JDH gave him. JDH's American Oaks & Maples [at The Camp] are currently looking very beautiful. JDH is going to Lady Smythe's at Marazion. A friend has shown JDH an inflorescence of Gunnera scabra from Guernsey weighing 68lbs, JDH thinks there is a slim chance Thiselton-Dyer may want it for the RBG Kew museum.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC899

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
28 December 1892
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.90, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1161

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Paul Friedrich August Ascherson
Date:
30 January 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.121-123, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC485

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 February 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.128, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH explains why he considers Dr [James William Helenus] Trail a suitable candidate for fellowship of the Royal Society. It was JDH who recommended that Trail go on the expedition up the Amazon 12 years previously & Trail made the most of the opportunity for scientific purposes making excellent collections & observations, especially papers on the palms of the Amazon published in [Henry] Trimen's journal of botany in 1876 & work on Amazon ant-housing plants. He has also published further papers, catalogued in the Royal Society Compilations & is producing more. Trail is also a productive teacher of biological science & his students have often proved excellent members of expeditions. JDH intends to add his signature to Trail's paper of qualifications.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1667

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Francis “Frank” Darwin
Date:
13 March 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.208-209, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC486

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 April 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] giving his opinion of various publications by Alphonse de Candolle. JDH does not intend to write a notice of 'Alphonse de Candolle's [recent] work', as he has a very low opinion of it. JDH criticise de Candolle's descriptions & his systematic work. JDH lists those he considers superior contemporary systematists; Pourret, Saint-Hilaire, von Martius, Bentham, Endlicher, Gray & Engelmann. JDH has a higher opinion of de Candolle's geographical botany. He reviewed his GÉOGRAPHIE BOTANIQUE in the JOURNAL OF BOTANY, concluding that it was full of useful data but lacked philosophical views & was tainted by a belief in multiple creation of species & scepticism towards evolution, though this was before the 'Darwinian Epoch'. Darwin in fact had a high opinion of the work, & [Asa] Gray a modest one. JDH considers THE ORIGINE DES PLANTES CULTIVÉES an excellent book but not comprehensive, e.g. it does not address the cultivation of Amorphophallus campanulatus or Tacca, which is cultivated from Tahiti to Malaya. JDH calls THE HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES ET DES SAVANTS 'very good & instructive' & thinks its highlight's de Candolle's forte, which is as a statistician. He has not read de Candolle's biography of his father [Augustin Pyrame de Candolle] or his methodology of descriptive botany & was unimpressed by his INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. He summarises that it is impossible to consider the work of de Candolle without appearing to deprecate him though his wealth & leisure have allowed him time to contribute much to botany. JDH suggests that [William Botting] Hemsley take on LOIS DE LA NOMENCLATURE BOTANIQUE. JDH mentions some Tibetan plants of interest & 'securing' George Massee. JDH is working on Indian Eriocaulons, which he thinks is the most minute flowers genus of Phenogams, & grasses. JDH thanks WTTD for some Rhododendrons. Balfour has sent JDH a list of New Zealand Veronicas which they have at Edinburgh [Botanic Garden].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC487

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
17 April 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.130, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH critiques the work of Alphonse de Candolle. His MONOGRAPHIAE PHANEROGAMARUM does not accord with JDH's revision of the Phanerogams. JDH recognises that he has worked hard at botany, though he is wealthy enough not to have needed to. However, he finds that de Candolle's treatment of plant distribution GÉOGRAPHIE BOTANIQUE RAISONNÉE shows a lack of deep understanding of the subject & is more a collection of useful data than an attempt to reach any conclusions. JDH asks if Alphonse de Candolle is dead. JDH has had no answer to his letter to Carriere[?]. [George] Bentham has completed work on the Australian Enocaulaceae & JDH is reviewing them to determine which ones are Indian species. JDH suggests that de Candolle's systematic work does not compare favourable with those of Asa Gray, Antoine Jusseau & George Bentham but if de Candolle is dead them JDH will take on de Candolle's systematic work.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC900

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
2 May 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.91-91a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1765

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
24 May 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.44, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC903

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
24 May 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.93, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC829

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29?-7-1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.20, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC901

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
11 August 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.92, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC830

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 September 1893
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC768

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
7 September 1893
Source of text:
HNR/2/1/3 f.106, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
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