From:
Harry Bateman
To:
AT Whittaker
Date:
1906
Source of text:
MM/18/22, Royal Society
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JDH sends Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] belated Christmas & new year wishes. He thanks WTTD for sending him a photo of a favourite spot in the Rhododendron Dell, now hanging on the wall at The Camp. JDH is relieved that David Prain has been appointed as the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. JDH is studying the Balsams of 'the archipelago', a subject neglected by Dutch botanists. He comments on their relative abundance in Sumatra, Java, the [Malay?] Peninsula & the Philippines. JDH reports that his wife Hyacinth Hooker is ill, suffering with Rheumatism, & later in the month he will take her to Bath.
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JDH responds to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer's [WTTD] account of the death of Mary Barnard, [Noel?] Barnards daughter, she died of acute diabetes. JDH is disturbed to hear that his own daughter, WTTD's wife Harriet, has a malarious fever & approves of their plan to take her to Sidmouth to recuperate. JDH mentions the Thiselton-Dyer's new home. JDH visited the new Director of RBG Kew, David Prain, & his wife. JDH found Prain is working too hard & the Department [of Agriculture & Fisheries] is asking him to do too much outside his Kew duties. JDH also went to the RBG Kew herbarium to work on Balsams, where he found out Brandis is ill. [Dietrich] Brandis is working on the anatomy of bamboo leaves. [Eduard] Strasburger has also visited Kew where he & JDH spoke about old German botanists, & Marsileas in the Berlin Gardens. Notes that it is curious, WTTD, his son George & Bentham have ended up living on a street called Lindley [John Lindley having been a prominent orchidologist who worked at Kew]. Lady Hyacinth Hooker has gout in her knee. JDH offers to send WTTD copies of the Records of the Botanical Survey of India. Something JDH wrote for the Gazetteer has finally been printed. JDH's son Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker has secured a billet at Melbourne but JDH does not know if it is in the mining business. [William Robert] Guilfoyle was helping Brian to find work. Brian's daughter Frances has been sent to the Clemen[?] sisters.
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