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Poulton's lecture at Cape Town on Burchell and animal mimicry.
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The last chapters of ARW's book Is Mars Habitable?, radiation and Martian canals.
Lowell, water vapour etc [on Mars]; thanks for copy of ARW's book (possibly a proof copy of Is Mars Habitable?, published in Jan 1908).
Asking ARW to name his ten favourite humanitarians of the 19th century, giving names of people who already contributed and informing ARW that he himself has already been named as one of the "precious ten"; typed on headed paper of "Altruria, an ideal magazine for people with ideals" [seems to have existed from 1907 to 1908]; handwritten note on back "The Ten favourite Humanitarians of the Nineteenth Century".
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Letter bears no written date, estimated date c.1907. The letter concerns Chinese & Malayan Impatiens. Hooker began to study Impatiens seriously in about 1904, extending his interest from Indian species to those of China & Malaysia in around 1907. The subsequent (unrelated) letter in the volume can also be dated to 1907. Full summary not available.
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JDH acknowledges Sir William Thiselton-Dyers congratulations on his 'Swedish award' [Commemorative Gold Medal presented by the Regia Academia Scientiarum Suecica, Uppsala for the Linnean Bicentenary]. Some correspondence from Sir Edward Grey transmitted with the medal may be published in the BULLETIN OF MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. JDH goes on to mention those who will be attending his birthday celebration: a deputation from the B.S. [Botanical Society of London?], his granddaughter Frances Harriet Thiselton-Dyer, Harrinay[?], his children Grace Ellen Hooker & William Henslow Hooker & his cousin; botanical artist Matilda Smith. Hopefully RBG Kew Director David Prain will also attend. They will miss Harriet Thiselton-Dyer's company. JDH fears his wife Lady Hyacinth Hooker may be too unwell for the gathering as she suffers with gout. JDH has heard from George King that he is still unwell & going from Wales to stay with his friend [David Douglas] Cunningham in Torquay. JDH reports that Sir Richard Strachey has 'come down in the world' & been forced to sell his house in Lancaster Gate & retire to Hampstead, JDH is very sad for his old, infirm friend.
JDH acknowledges receipt of a document from the Royal Bavarian Academy [of Sciences and Humanities] congratulating him on his 90th birthday. He addresses his thanks for the flattering & aesthetically lovely document to the President of the Society: Karl Theodore von Heigel.
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