TALBOT3671

Glasgow.
May 11^th 1838.

My dear Sir

I am exceedingly obliged to you for being so actively interesting [sic] about Kew Gardens. ¹ I do think the petition from the Linnæan Soc^{y 2} will have great weight with Ministers, & I heartily wish it may. It is impossible for that matter to be in better hands than those of the B. of Norwich, Brown, ³ Boott ⁴ & yourself. It can do no harm & it may do great good.

I have now another Journal of Gardner’s ⁵ to print on the vegetation of Pernambuco. Nobody can regret more than I do that Botany cannot form a separate Journal, without Zoology & Geology. But it has been tried again & again & failed. Indeed I doubt if any body but Taylor ⁶ would make a Nat. Hist^y Journal of any kind answer. – Pray be so good as to let me know if you hear any thing further respecting Kew & how far I may stand a chance of the appointment: – for I see clearly that if I fail in that I am tied to Scotland for the rest of my life. My fortune will not enable me to return to England with 5 children without an equivalent for my professorship here.

Ever faithfully yours,
W. J. Hooker

H. F. Talbot Esq^re
31. Sackville Street