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"text": "Dec 21/95\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINGDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nI have gone into Callitris,\n& am satisfied that, whatever shd\nbe done with Widdringtonia, Tetraclinis\nshould stand. It differs wholly from\nWiddringtonia & Callitris in the\ncharacter of its articulations -- as\nindeed the two last do from\none another, & if you throw in the\ngeographical Element you have\n3 as good genera as can well be --\nTetraclinis -- N. Africa\n1833)\nPachylepis alias Widdringtonia (1842)\nS. Africa\n180\nCallitris Australia.\nWith love & hearty good wishes\nfrom us to you all Evr affy yrs\nJDHooker",
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"text": "[145]\nJay 14/96\n9\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINGDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nOf course Oliver's name\nmust disappear form the title pages\nof the \"Icones.\" The only draw- back\nwhich I see to your undertaking\nthe editorship is the labour & the\nresponsibility involved. I speak\nfeelingly, having regard to the\nBotanical Magazine; which is\nof both\neven less as I have not to drive\nothers in harness. It might be\nwell to add Hemsely's name, as\nassisting -he being so prominent\nin the Herbarium. You can think\nit over. I cannot but think",
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"text": "146/252\n19/96.\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINGDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nIf you think that I can\nbe of any use I will gladly help:\nreviewing the sheets of Icones, though\nI must own that my eyes are\nnot so good as they were -- still\nI may here & there spot a \nblunder so big that others have\noverlooked it.\nI would not trouble about\nReeve -- if there is any chance of\nDulam resenting it -- for I know\nwhat good men Dulam are, &\nhow useful -- I do not see",
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"text": "affects the useless attempts at classifying\ny\nvarieties. Which with from Herbm specimens is\nimpossible to any good purpose\nI think the herbarium descriptive\nwork of Hemsley, Brown & Rolfe is\nreally excellent. -- Though I do\n wish you could limit on diagnoses\nproceeding the general descriptions\nwhere these are long -- which is not\nthe case in the \"Decas\" just received\ncharacters hold\nwhere the descriptions a good\nmean between a bold diagnosis &\na descripton. If, as no doubt they\nare, these are careful, they quite\nsuit the requirements of utility with\nspeedy publication. -- 6-7 lines\nwith a postscript of dimensions &c\nmight be the rule.\nI should have told you that",
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"text": "we see the women in the labourers\nplots. Technical Education\nturned into that direction\nwould do more good than\nwould the training of young Ladies\nto flower\n1\ngardening.\nE affy yours\nJos. D. Hooker\nMr. Darwin is vastly pleased\nwith the \"Index\". --",
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"text": "Soper & Reeve before him have\nbeen thorns in my side. They move\nin very narrow grooves, but I have\nso often sinned in withholding copy\nfor weeks & months, which is a\nworry to the printers -- who visit on the\npublisher; that have got callous --\nto the greivances[sic] of both, -- & to my\npunishment.\nI have not a single one of\nthe Tibetan implements you desiderate,\nExcept a Tobacco Pipe, & this being\nwholly of brass is hardly suitable:--\nit is further my only objective\nmemento of my \"durance Vile vile,\"\nwhen it was a Solace of a sort.\nYour request reminds me that\nI have still your inscribed slab!",
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"text": "Ar\n2\n148\nMarch 21/96\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINGDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nI have been long concocting\nthis letter to you about the Library\nCatalogue -- you must deal with\nit as you think fit; & let me\nknow if I can in any way assist\nwith your project.\nEvans came up to me the\nother day, about some scheme\nfor transferring a part of the\nKew cryptogamic collection to\nthe British Museum which he\nhad in his head -- I would\nnot enter into the matter with",
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"text": "152\nDecr 15/96\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINGDALE.\nKE\nMy dear Dyer\nI will do Mueller\nbefore long & I have just sent\noff Hodgson. These Society\nobituarys are becoming a tax, or\nrather have been thid to me, but\nI am nearly at the end of my tether!\nI am having a lot of\ncorrespondence about Banks.\nMr Ings has sent me some\nletters of Solander Cunningham &\nAnderson which I shall give to\nHerbm.\nIt is good news that you",
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"text": "will undertake Finances for the\nR.S. I feared it might go into\nBrittens' hands. I have been\nporing over the vols of Ceylon\nFlora & trying my hand at some\nof the genera -- Carex and Fimbristylis\nwith Clarkes work, & find it\nnecessary with the latter to fall\nback on Bentham a good deal.\nAs you told me, I find that it\nwill take 2 vols to finish the\nwork. If I undertake it I must\nthink about it for a couple of\nyears. It will be drudgery &\nthe Govt. must gild the pill.\nI have just heard from King",
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"text": "154\nJay6/97\nAns\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINGDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nI return Poulton with\nmany thanks, it has interested me\ngreatly. He makes too much of Huxley --\nHe is quite wrong about Huxley's\nanswer to the Bp. at Oxford, & it's\neffect is all through Newton's desire\nto belittle belittle both, calling it a\n'drawn battle'! I have written to\nF. Darwin about it. As to Pangenesis\n, it was as the 'parting of the ways' with\nDarwin and me. I never could even\ngrasp\nentertain the notion of what were\nneither molecular nor atom.\nYour estimate of Hodgson is very\njust -- as we knew him in the",
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"text": " mildewed condition of his later\nlife. He was a very different being\nas I knew him at Darjeeling (i.e.\nwhen well there), full of animation\n& brimming over with information.\nirreverence,\nI could understand Yule's irreveren\nbut I cannot the objection founded on\nhis so called marriage, or alliance\nto a \"Mohomdea Lady\"! as Hunter,\nwith what I can only suppose to be with\nhumourously calls it her. She was\nKatman\njust a girl out of the Bazaar, at\ndu\na Hindoo I suppose, who Hodgson no doubt\nbought. At Darjiling she lived in one\nroom of a hut behind H's bungalow,\nwith one native woman to attend on\nher, & Hodgson told me that he had\nno communication with her, & very rarely",
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"text": "the house is being turned upside down\nfor a children's party.\nEvr affy yrs\nJos. D. Hooker",
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"text": "Jay 26 /97.\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINGDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nAs soon as I can get to Kew\nI will go into the matter of the\nCypripedia. The Indian Orchideae\nwant revision throughout -- the\ntask was too heavy a one for a\nFlora that had to be brought out\nwithin a reasonable period, & my\ncopy is full of notes errata and\naddenda.\nI had not heard of the\ndiscovery of Antherozoids in Cycas\n& Salisburia -- it is a very\nfar reaching one.\nScotts researches interest me\ngreatly, though overleaping my",
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"text": "good many genera of Orchideae,\nLiparis, Erica & Dendrobium\namongst these -- & there are\nsome genera in which it is hard\nto say whether the leaves are\nwhen fully developed, coriaceous\nor membranous, even where they\nwere obviously plicates & there is\nvariation. A genera was made\nfor the evergreen Beeches, but never\nadopted; & the evergreen Oaks might\nclaim the same dignity.\nAs to my not having taken up\nthe name -- was it published when\nI did the Orchids? -- I began in 1882\n& finished in 1886, if I remember\naright\nI am thirsting to know more",
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"text": " in England, & 100 gone to America.\nIt has cost me £50 already & I\nshall never see 1d. of it back.\nNevertheless I am more than\nsatisfied with its reception here & in\nAmerica & Australia, & find myself\nproud of having given Banks a\nlift up amongst his posterity.\nSir Saul Samuel has sent me a\nprinted list of a large collection of\nBanksian correspondence that he\nbrought from Lord Brabourne! Also\na volume of Records of N S Wales\n1783-1789. full of most curious\nmatter, including Bank's efforts in\nthe cause of the Colony &c &c &c.\nThere is a mention in it of a short\nMemoir of Sir J. B. \"written from",
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"text": " distinction, & one wholly to my\nliking.-- As for P.C., except steps\nwere taken to include many other\nscientific men, it would have been\nout of place, I think. What\nyou tell me of Sir Stewart Bailey's \nopinion, & that of his fellow\ncouncillors immeasurably heightens\nthe satisfaction with which I\nregard the gift -- thank you for telling me.\nI have written thanking Lord\nHamilton, the only one of the\ncouncil of whom I have any\npersonal knowledge, & that is\nthe slightest. I have told him how\ngreat was the pleasure of seeing",
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"text": "Stracheys name with mine -- he\nhaving been at work exploring the W. end\nof the Himalayas whist whilst I was\nexploring the E. just half a century\nago.\nI am disappointed at not\nseeing your name in the list, which I\nquite expected to do -- this only\ndelayed, that is very sure, & will in\nmy day I feel very sure.\nI was writing to Harriet when\nyour letter came -- or rather inditing my\nepistle I should say -- I inclose it with\nmy love.\nI've had a wonderful day at\nWindsor, Eton & Slough, which will\nkeep till we meet at the Naval",
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"text": "Marine Villa\nSouth Terrace \nLittlehampton\nMy dear Dyer\nScott wrote to me a few\ndays ago, asking my opinion of\nthe claims of the 4 botanical\ncandidates for F.R.S. & I gave\nit emphatically for Seward;\nat the same time saying all\nI could for Gamble. I have\nstudied Seward's work carefully\n& read his last \"Fossil Plants\",\nthrough & through, & am much\nstruck with his grasp of the\nsubject, clear views & excellent\nstyle, scientific & literary --\nadding to this that he has been",
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"text": "up for now three years, & Gamble\nonly two I felt that his\nclaims were the greatest.\nGambles' Bambuseae is no\ndoubt excellent -- but it is founded\non Munro's work, which it very\nclosely follows. Perhaps his India\nForest trees is his best claim.\nI have had several long\ndiscussions with Stapf. about his\nclaims, & hope I have done\nsome good. The order is, in a\nsystematic point of view, by far\nthe most puzzling of Phanerogams --\n& I should not be surprised to\nisee startling innovations before\nthey are done with. Stapf. has\nintroduced great improvements in the\nIndian clavis (of Fl.B.I) & as to",
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"text": "Ans\n16\nHant 7/99\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINGDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nThanks for your letter.\nThe approval of the residence selected\nby my father-- simply applied to\nthe site in respect of proximity to\nthe Garden. The Board never troubled\ntheir heads further The £200 covered,\nor should have covered, rent, rates,\ntaxes & repairs, which of course it\ndid not. From some correspondence o\nhis with my Grandfather I find he\nre\nnt\npaid re paid £178 the first year --\nhe undertaking painting papering &c.\nor rather Sp Relieving Gent\nfor the rooms, where it\nPopham of this which was not\n& any--thing further would have involved responsibility\n& that was the last thing they would desire.",
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"text": "£90. I think it was the Carron\nCmpy (Iron-founders, hence \"Carronards\")\nthat undertook this. I find by the\ncorrespondence alluded to, that in Novr 1841\nhe had overdrawn his account at the\nBank by £1,600! & had then no end\nof outstanding bills, including upward of\n£60 to Cuming and upward of £80 to\nTaylor & co for work done on \"Musci\nExotic Flora\"\nExotici\" 20 years previously!! a bill never\nbefore presented! & which I guess he\nworks\ndisputed -- I knew that these & the\nhad cost him large sums.\nBrit. Jungermanniae\nYou may imagine his horror at such a\nbill being presented in the middle of his\nKew embarckment.\nAlso I find that Aiton in making\nover charge, claimed all the books &\ndocuments in his house as private\nahead!\nproperty -- & had them all sent to\nhis brother's. Helois. This my father",
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"text": "as a Member. As soon as I get the\nCeylon Flora off my hands I shall set to\nwork to get more.\nI went to the Levee yesterday\ntaken by Sir E Fanshawe as usual, &\nspent a delightful day with him, Lot.\naccompanying me -- leaving this morning.\nHe had to present a Grandson, a quiet youth\njust appointed to a Halifax Regt and\nsmothered in military millinery, the\nextravagant gaud of which is a thing to\ndream of. -- How the Govt. can sanction it is\n a marvel. The very waistcoat, worn under\nthe shell-- jacket is one mass of gold embroidery on\nWhite Satin! -- beautiful indeed. His outfit\n& his pay\ncost £500 & £300 a year is the best he\ncan do with in a very quiet cavalry Regiment\nfor which no examination is required!!! \nra\nJos D Hooker\nI shall go & see Paget. Except Sabina\nSmith he is quite my oldest friend.",
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"text": "The Camp\nDec2/\nMy dea Dyer\nThough I fear I must not\ncongratulate you on the honor\nthat you have received, I must\nexpress my sincere pleasure : feeling\nthat you deserved it. I own to it's\ntouching my pride, that it should\ndown\ngo down as an honor to my family,\nboth on your own account & on\nHarriet's. Also I am proud of it\nin view of the lustre it reflects on\nKew. Happily it need not carry\nwith it, in your case, as it does & ever\nwill in mine, the keen sense of the\nneglects my father's services met\nwith at the hands of the govt.",
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"text": "1167\nJan 3 1900\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINCDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nI shall be delighted to\nhave the Pisum in Bot. Mag. -- of\nwhich I knew nothing till Mr\nBurkill came to me about it\nlast Monday. I could get it\ninto the April number if Miss\nSmith has drawn it.\nI wrote to Rayleigh at once\npointing out that a site for the\nLaboratory any where near the\nGarden boundary, would ruin\none of the finest landscapes within\nthe fume distance of London, & be\nan eye-sore for the Gardens for a",
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"text": "216 ADC; 49 Boissier: & so on..\nWe go on the 2d to Bournemouth,\nweather permitting.\nThanks for the hints about\nstrychnine & iron -- I had the\nformer but was obliged to give it\nup. I really want nothing now\nbut will tell my Dr what you\nsay. I have followed your advice\nas to Port wine.\nI congratulate Harriet on the\nCat's recvey -- love to her\nEv affy\nJos D Hooker\nThe enclosed should I think be\nwith the Treub papers.",
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"text": "Brewery at Halesworth which he was\n(& disinclined!)\ntotally unfitted to manage, led to the\na great part of\ndissipation of the fine property which he\ninherited; to which must be added a\nrather reckless expenditure in travelling,\nLondon society, & the purchase of books on\nOrnithology, Entomology, Botany &c. &c. &c & on\nthe British Jungermanniae, Muscologia, &c.\nWith love to Harriet & the children if\nwith you (though no longer childs)\nEv affey y\nJos D Hooker\nI should be glad of some hardy\nperennials, Asters &c when the beds are\nbeing sorted -- do not trouble about Nama-\nI cannot keep them, my soil is so light -\nthat they have no hold.\nWe return to the Camp on Monday.",
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"text": "1172\nDecr 13 1900\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINCDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nI was sorry to miss you\nto-day, as I wanted to tell you\nhow thorough I found your\nvindication of the position of Kew\nto be -- & how ably put together\n& expressed. With such a wooden\nheaded Treasury it is I fear hopeless\nto expect much : -- except indeed\na man like Chamberlain could\nbe got to grasp the situation &\nact. -- A fire proof building for\nour own collection should be\nvehemently urged, whatever else\nis done, & it would be well that\nyou should be prepared with a",
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"text": "plan of one, however rough.\nI spent several hours with\nStrachey last Monday; he is\nmuch better, but far from well,\n& desponding- he is up & about,\nbut feeble.\nI had a talk with him about\nBlanford, for whom something ought\nto be done in recognition of his\nservices to India & to Science.\nOver & above his great labour in\nzoology & geology in India, Persia\n& Abyssinia, he is Editor & in\ngreat part author of 11 volumes\nof Indian zoology. If you agree\nI will urge his claim of a Royal\nMedal. I feel ashamed when",
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"text": "the microscope that Henslow used,\nif so I will give it.\nWhat a good paper Gunther has\nmade on the Swainson letters -- I\nmust do something with Bentham's\ncorrespondence.\nEver affecty yr\nJos D Hooker",
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"text": "(175\nAug 12\n1\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINCDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nI am really obliged for\nyour note about Plagius grandiflorus.\nThe plant puzzled me, & I lost\na good deal of time over it.; for\nit does not agree with De Candolle's\ndescription. I am sending for\nfresh specimens for Bot. Mag.\nI was very much impressed\nwith the Coronation affair. We left\nwe\nthe house were staying at, at about\n8 &, were set down at the Abbey at\n9.30, we had front seats in the\nnave, where the G.C.s were located\n902",
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"text": "the procession passing us at little\nmore than hand-shake distance:\nbut the weather was so gloomy &\nthe windows of the abbey so blocked,\nthat the diamonds did not sparkle.\nThe variety of costumes was very\nstriking, their gorgeousness was depressing --\nThe Lords Peers' coronets the most hideous\nhead-gear conceivable. & the caps\nof maintenance little better, the crowns\nwere very becoming -- though the jewels\ndid not scintillate, for want of light\nof course we saw nothing of the ceremony,\nthe \"Theatre\" being crammed with\nthe nobility &c &c The cheering was both\nhearty and solemn:- vy effective. My\nblue mantle was a horrid nuisance,",
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"text": "Thanks very for information\nabout Gelsemiums -- Bot. Mag. is a\nman-trap & I feel it on both ankles.",
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"text": "good collector & systematist, I suppose\nall that remains to be done is to\nacquaint the Agent General with our\nviews, Will you do so please?\nThis is a queer place -- miles & miles\nof red brick houses of all sizes often in\ngigantic terraces & blocks 5--6 stories high\nwith hideous blank interspaces of grass &\nrubbish -- a sea without shore or ships,\nland without trees -- architecture\nuniformly vile -- where all the people come\nfrom to inhabit the legions of big houses is\na mystery to me -- the whole place is\nonly half baked to look at -- the shops\nare excellent, & air splendid.\nWith best love to Frances in which\nLady Hooker joins, & with the requests\nthat she will let us know in a few\ndays how her Mother goes on.\nEvr affy ys\nJos. D. Hooker",
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"text": "The place is doing her also much good\nOur appetites are voracious, & we get all\nthe fresh air we can.\nThe town is very attractive for\nits gardens & the excellence of the private\nhouses in literally all the suburbs. The\nroads every where good & they are timly\nliterally lined with flowering trees &\nopposite the houses & in their gardens\nshrubs to an Extent I have never seen\nelsewhere. For at least a mile of\nevery road out of the town there are\neithers\nseats at every few yards, & either gas or\nelectric lights. There is not a public house\nto be seen, nor any poverty. It is in fact\na resort of the rich. Many fine houses\nbelong to wealthy Leeds & even London\ntec\npeople & the architecture of the houses\ngreat & small is a lesson to London\nVilladom.\nWe are most comfortable in our\nth\nquarters, facing the huge belt of meadow",
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"text": "(literally pages of)\nme no end of citation & laudation to my\ngreat astonishment. For my physical &\ngeological observations, he concludes\nshrewd\n\"The volumes abound throughout with shrew\ncomments on all he observes, & the thorough\ncharacter of his observations is testified to\nby the fact, that, since his journal was\nwritten, no additions to our knowledge\nof any importance, have been made by\nsubsequent observers in the districts which\nhe visited.\" ! I am praised too for\nthe accuracy of my survey, as being right\ner\nla\nwhere leater surveyors have challenged it. \nThe \"Tibet Messenger\" has telegraphed me\na most handsome tribute. All this has\nwakened me up.\nI hope I shall see George when he returns.\nI am affy yr\nJos. D. Hooker",
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"text": "for a month: the Devon Peninsula is it's\nheadquarters, & the forms are startling -\nyet never suggesting a specific difference\n--\nto me at least. In every case I have\nto dissect a flower under water, which\nwith the removal from the mounting\noften takes 2 hours. I sketch every one,\n& all parts on the Herb sheets & keep the\n\"preparations\" gummed on slips of paper in\na capsule on the sheet.\nThe Madras Herbarium specimens have\nbeen a heavy labor -- I very much want\nthe drawings that Harriet has in hand.\nThanks for the photo of the house; it\nlooks very nice & will no doubt\nprove so.\nI made an effort to see the Antarctic\nsketches with my legs bandaged up to",
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"text": "the knees (but not painfull), & they are\nmarvellous in number interest &\nexecution -- No naval exped ever did\n& bodies\nthe like -- the heads of birds by Dr\nWilson are the perfection of orni\n-thological drawing & coloring -- they are\nabsolutely alive.\nI hope you will enjoy your short\nholiday with Harriet.\ny\nEver affy\nJos D Hooker.",
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"text": "was confined to species illustrative of\nInsect life.\nThe Dioscorides reproduction must be\nof extraordinary interest. I long to see it.\n&out of\nI have had to keep in & out of bed the last\nfew days from the incessant calls of a\ndiarrhoea. I think that, thanks to my\nyouth & a good doctor, I am all right\nagain. I am at my desk now, clothed &\nwith my right bowels (I hope).\nHarriet will be glad to hear that Mrs\nGray is much better -- Miss Loring\nwrites that the doctors do not think\nthat the attack was paralytic, though it\ncertainly affected both speech & muscles of\nthe trunk & limbs.\nLady H is suffering agonies from\nrheumatism in the right leg.\nEve affy y \nJos D Hooker.\nI am concerned about poor John Smith. I\nmade not very long ago,\nI have been making enquiries about him from",
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"text": "the Charity Organ \"Soc\" & the clergymen\nof his parish, all speak well of him\nI am told\n& he has good testimonials from various\nposts mostly temporary, which he has\nheld. Some friends contribute a few\nshillings for his weekly support, in\nwhich I join, & Lady Hooker sends him\nsome warm clothing. I am assured\nthat he is thoroughly dependable, & really\nsedulously seeks employment. Should\nyou hear of any small place where lowly\nhonest service is required, I am sure\nhe would deserve it. As far as I can\nmake out he has never lost character &\nhis condition is really distressful.",
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"text": "June 211907\nTHE CAMP.\nSUNNINCDALE.\nMy dear Dyer\nI should earlier have thanked\nyou for your letter of 6 & kind congratu\n-lations upon the Swedish award. This\nwas indeed an undreamed of honor, &\nthe circumstances under which it\nwas presented were in every way most\nso were\ngratifying. Not less to me the few\nkind words from Sir E Grey with\nwhich he transmitted the medal to\nme a week ago. Prain proposes to\nprint the correspondence in the Bulletin\nProud as I may well be of the medal, & all\nit means it\ndoes not eclipse the Linnean on various\naccounts.\nYours is the first intimation I\nhave had of the deputation of the B.S.\ncoming on visitation my birthday. Lady",
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"text": "our friend Strachey has come down\nhas\nin the world & had to give up his\nbeautiful house in Lancaster Gate &\nretire to Hampstead. He is just my\nage & very infirm. It is very sad &\nI feel it deeply.\nWith love to Harriet.\nEv affctnly yr\nJos D Hooker",
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"text": "are many Padangs & I have had to ask\nhim which. My description of the 60 species\nof the Paris Herbarium is printed in the \"Nouvelles\nArcheau\", but not yet published. I have\nnow full descriptions of about 170 species from\nChina proper. I have just sent to Paris\na paper on the few (about 15) known Turkish\nspecies & their distribution; they harmonise\nwith the Malay Peninsula, but not with\nMaln archipelagan or those of China proper.\nI shall be glad of your criticism where it\nappears in the forthcoming Bulletin. I think\nmy treatment of the subject is novel, but it\nwill not set the Thames on fire.\nMy whole life since I came here has\nbeen directed to Impatiens -- much of it is\npure taxidermy, for Herbm. specimens are perfectly\nuseless without accompanying drawings of the\nfloral organs, not one of which can be even\nimagined except as dissected & laid out. I can\ndefy the sharpest eyed botanist to say from the\ndned flowen who the the schels, Noweve, big, an\n2 or 4 in number.\nSo I brag away like any other slippered\npantaloon.",
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"text": "A superb Impatiens arrived for\nKew today, collected by one of Sander's\nscouts in Siam. Whence Kew had only\n4\nspecies, it is allied to the Jenkin ones.\nEver affectionately yors\nJos. D Hooker\nLady Hooker thanks you very much\nfor your letters, which gave her\ngreat pleasure & joins me in best\nwishes for the New Year.\nI am reading Galton's Life -- it\nis very curious & interesting.",
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"text": "Feb 2 8 1909\nTHE CAMP,\nNEAR SUNNINCDALE.\nMy dea Dyer\nI have re-read your\nessay & enjoyed it even more than\nI did the first perusal. I do\nnot see how it could be improved\nexcept by saying less of me. I am\nmuch interested in Gondwana\nland. I attended several\ndiscourses on it's plants at the\nLinnean meeting, but owing to my\nit is hideously\ndeafness & his wretched delivery (with\ncarried away very little of it -- & this\nthis reminds me that\ndelivery of the successive addresses\nat the Jubilee meeting convinced me\nthat no one should be allowed to\nspeak or lecture that had not taken",
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"text": "lessons in elocution.\nI cannot but conjecture that\nthere was more migration across the\nafter\nMediterranean before or during\nMiocene times than the existing\nFlora of the Atlas evidences. &\nthat the desication of the Saharan\nregion has obliterated much of it.\nbut I am so ignorant of all that has\nbeen done towards the geology of that\nvast area, during the last 1/4 century\nthat I have no grasp of the subject.\nI am enjoying what Darwin called\nthe privilege of old age, to be ignorant\n& not ashamed.\nBalsams occupy all my time. I have\ndetailed descriptions of nearly 400 species.\nTheir geographical distribution is\nwonderfully interesting -- I am now",
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"text": "describing the Indo-Chinese species for\nthe \"Flore Générale de Indo-Chine.\"\nof some 28 species, not one of which is\nChinese or Malayan. In a little\ncontribution to the Bulletin I have\nsketched a plan for effectually comparing\nsome contiguous Balsam floras of\nAsia. I am sorry that I cannot give\nyou a copy of my paper on they Chinese my\npaper on the Chinese Balsams in the\nParis Herbm. I was only allowed enough\nto send one to the various bodies & people\nthat had loaned me materials. & If\nyou care to see it I will send it on\nto you. You have of course the \"Hook.\nIcones\" -- for which I am preparing\nanother part.\nHave you got a copy of my essay on the\nflora of British India? as it appeared\nfinally in the Gazetteer?\nOf course the species of Balsam are all",
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"text": "My description of the Burdwan\ncoal flora in my Himalayan Journals\nhad entirely left my memory -- I am\namused at your idea of my being\nfather to Godwam land.\nThe only work in which I can\nremember discussing the types of\nIndia & Mediterranea genera\nacross Africa is in the Marocco\nbook. p. 404 seq\nBees are the principle pollinating\nagents of the Himalayan & American\nBalsams in my garden, which have\nvery short spurs.\nBurkill has been observing &\ndescribing in India, the pollinating\nactions of many insects -- but not in the\nmatter of Balsams.\nEver affy ys\nJos D Hooker",
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"text": "fact or\nyears that any fiction\nis tame after it. I think\nhowever that \"Janet's\nRepentance\" which\nfinished yesterday is\nfar from perfect -- in\nas a whole\nplot or quite true to\nnature - though itself\nquite as flush of truths\nto nature of the most\ndelightful & refreshing\ndescription.",
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"text": "Kew Nov 28/\n74\nMy dear Dyer\nWill you kindly\nglance at the\nenclosed dedication\n& let me know if\nany thing occurs to\nin style or matter\nthat should be\nimproved\nI am not feeling well",
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"text": "The enclosed Magnolia is\ncalled fuscata in MacLeay's\nGreenhouse, but the flower\nis far smaller & the bud\ndifferently shaped from\nours.\nVy ty ys\nJos D Hooker",
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"text": "De\n16/74\nWednesday\nDear Dyer\nII should like to\nconfer further with you\nabout the Laboratry\nbefore writing to\nthe Board - Any time that\nis convenient to you\nYrs\nJDHooker",
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"text": "much the other way.\nI shall certainly remonstrate\nwith Allman about sending\nhis paper to the Royal: what\nwill be regarded as a snub\nto the Linnean. Though I am\nsure he does not intend it\nas such. Bentham may not\nquite like the idea of turning\nthe Council Room into a\nmeeting room. but I am quite\nsure he will not oppose it,\nor be \"dis-pleased\". Let Allman\nMatter\nput this from the chair in the\nCouncil; & I hope that the\ntrial of it will be carried.\nI am so vexed with\nmyself for having disheartened\nyou the other night, & am\nmyself much concerned that I",
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"text": "should have left you under\n\"impression that my \"sympathies\n\"are opposed to the Biological\n\"side of Botany\" -- I am quite at\na loss to think what I said to\nlead you to think ths-&\nwhatever it was, I exceedingly\nregret it. Our conversation was\na mixed & muddled one, personal\nin two respects & general in many\nmore. Personally I felt for\nmyself, that I was committed\nin the matter of the Cape Flora.\nPersonally I felt for you, that\nyour acquirements & powers\nare being expended on labors\nthat do not tend to give you\nthat scientific position to which\nyou are so well entitled: and\nas regards us both,\n personally, I felt that I had\nindividually profited\nby\nyour",
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"text": "& eminently wise ones. My warm\nparticipation in them surely\nshowed no want of sympathy\nwith Biology as opposed to System\nHad you declined the systematic\nwork & come forward to devote\nyour attention to pure physiology\nat Kew, I hope & believe you\nwould have found me as\nsympathetic -- Assuredly I should\nhave as strongly lifted up my\nvoice against your devotion\nof so much time & labor to\nboth\nto what is unremunerative with\npecuniarily & in point of\nposition, & as I think productively too.\nWith regard to the British\nAssociation, I feel acutely that\nI should not have alluded\nA\nto it -- though I did it\nThought\nin a general way & with no reference",
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"text": "ualy\nshould\nIt is an advantage to me that\nby that its means get papers, my\nown & others too, speedily & well\npublished. & for this it is worth\nmy while to sacrifice some\nin securing\ntime & trouble for its welfare.\nLinnean was to demand\nIf the\nI time & trouble\nthis annualy, like the Brit. Ass\nI should abandon it to younger\nhands. If the Linnean offered\nme no more advantages than\nthe B.A. I should equally\nabandon it. True the disinterested\ndesinterested motives (of which I\nhope I am not void) that inspire\nme to keep either, are the\nsame in kind, but altogether\ndifferent in degree. The Linnean\nwell worked, is an unmixed good,\nnot so the Brit Assn.\nI intend to arrange this coming\nmonth for giving the Ro Chair to",
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"text": "Stokesay June 28th\n1876\nDear Dyer\nThanks for your letter. I\ncannot tell you how vexed\nI am about the cheque & the\ntrouble you have had.\nI am distressed about the theft\nof Bain's portrait, it certainly\npoints to persons who have\npersonal\nan interest in the man.\nReeve never sent me over the\nmagazine proofs, for which he\nhad abundant time &\nwhich he faithfully promised.\nThe descriptions must be\ndelayed till next month now",
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"text": "th\n8 Windsor Terrace W.\nGlasgow 32\nSept 6/ 76\nMy dear Dyer\nWe have just arrived\nfrom Loch Lomond, & found your\n3 letters & enclosures -- very many\nthanks for all the trouble you\nhave taken.\nI return the two India Office\ndrafts signed herewith, also\nBackhouses letter which I am\nparticularly glad to have\nseen, as he is a punctiliously\nconscientious man & not\ngiven to overpraising!\nI must confess however that\nall that is done is not half",
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"text": "that should be done, in the\nespecially\nArboretum\nStrachey is I suppose back\nin London now, he was to\nbe at Aviemore last week.\nI hope that what we wrote\nabout Mr Talbot is the right\nthing. I puzzled good deal\nover it & thought much over\nit since, but to no further\navail. I am most anxious\nto stand well with the I.O.\nThenls for what you have\ndone about Eaton. I had\nquite forgotten Lyallia which\nshould of course be figured\n& the them Uncinia.\nI dare say that the Calcutta",
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"text": "Garden is very bad indeed.\nI do not see how it can be\nconsidering\notherwise under the depressing\nconditions it exists under: but\nMudel is a disagreeable conceited\nJackanapes & wants a setting\ndown himself.\nI wrote to Duthie that he\nmust take Thwaites opinion\nas to the destination of the\nrubbers which he takes out,\n& that opinion must depend\non the state of the plants on\ntheir arrival, and on those of\n the 40 cases sent to Ceylon\n-if the 40 cases have\narrived in fair order, then\nor all\nsome of th Duthie's if in good\norder or if the 40 contents of the",
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"text": "i.e. with several duckings!\nI have\nof wind & rain\ninterested in\nbeen much\nmy old\nvisiting\nhaunts some of which are\nunchanged & others unrecogni\n=sable. We have not met\na single fr tourist friend till\none of\ntoday when 2 Miss Coles Whom\nI had met at Miss Sullivan's\nturned up on board the\nLoch Lomond Steamer --\nMrs Hooker is an excellent\ntraveler, climbs & walks like\na mountaineer, & is indifferent\nto bad weather.\nPlease say everything from me\nto Mr Smith\n& believe me ever\nsincerely yours\nJos D Hooker",
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"text": "Glasgow Sunday\nSept. 10.76\nMy dear Dyer\nI think it is settled that\nwe shall try Skye, the we\nincluding Mrs Lyell Ruamond\n& Arthur, Mr Symonds*2 & Miss\nTurner - & then my wife &d\nwill proceed to Aviemore &\nafter a few days with the\nGrants, turn south & home\nvia the Coleviles near\nDunfermline. We are quite\noverwhelmed with invitations\n& have made a perfect\nholocaust of them.\nThe feature of the Association\nhas been Tait's Lecture on Force",
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"text": "which consisted of an aggravated\nassault on Tyndall, most \nable, most humorous, most\ncruel & simply execrable in\ntone gesture & matter. It has\ngreatly disgusted his friends,\nespecially poor Andrews who\ninsisted on Tait lecturing, &\nSir W. Thomson who has\ntwice spoken to me about\nit with great concern\nAndrew's address I thought\nvery poor. Wallace's excellent,\nEvan's & Merrifield's both good\nbut Newtons miserable.\nThe absence of familiar faces",
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"text": "at the Association is quite\nremarkable.\nI hope to report favourably\non your application by tomorr\nbut objects were raised\nin the Committee on the grounds\nthat according to the wording\nthe application should have\ncome from the Linnean.\nI forward Newton's letter\n& shall act (with Bentham)\naccordingly. I could not\nlast\nget to the Committee of\nRecommendations, but\nshall I hope to the next.\nThe distances here are so\nenormous, that one can",
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"text": "hardly do anything in town\n& at the Association in the\nsame day.\nEver mostsincerely yours\nJos. D. Hooker",
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"text": "scenery, & one mountain tract\nlimited lofty & savage in a high\ndegree, with a rather contemptible\nlatter the\nlakelet in its bosom, the theme\nof more misrepresentations, articles\n& description, than any spot on the\nglobe known to me -\nOf the rock scenes the finest is the\nQueraing, which consists of the one\nside of a mountain top of basalt\nbeing dislocated in as singular &\nstriking a marvel as it is possible\nto imagine:-- no description had\ngiven me any idea of its remarkable\ncharacter -- nor can I say after seeing\nit, to what it is indebted for its\nunique character; whether to in action,\nsea action or convulsions, but should\nsuspect the latter, with much subsequent\naerial action. The substrata is a\nblack tough basalt, with little vegetation\nthough I found Silene acaulis, Arabis\npetraea, Oxyria, Antennaria & other\nrocks\nsubalpines. These blasted place (the",
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"text": "352\nis overhung by the savage black & most\nrugged cliffs of the saw-topped, Cuilathion\nCoolins ( written\nthis was very fine;-- not so the Lake\nitself, which instead of being girdled\nby black cliffs plunging into its blacker\nwaters was encircled by green sloping\nEngler\nbanks! Laden with transported boulders.\nFrom thence Mrs Hooker & I ascended a\nrocky mountain about 1000ft higher\n& obtained one of the finest views I ever\nlooked upon of the Western Islands from\nMorvern\nRum & Egg to Mull & almost the whole\nScotch coast from Ben Cruachan & Argyle\nround to Sutherland. The look down\nfrom the top - sheer down - to the Lakes\n& sea below was indescribably grand\nas were the other Coolin peaks cones\n& sierras that surrounded us.\nThe glacial features of the valley cannot\nbe exaggerated in point of interest &\nthe pitch-black rocks being very steep &\nglaciated, & the erratics scattered like\nas if titanic pills had been emptied\nover all the valley & at all elevations, which\nfor 2000 ft up they hang 'on by the eylids' to",
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"text": "cliffs & were strewed over ledges &\nwere so poised on sloping cliffs that\nyou saw them\nyou would fancy they were sliding down\nbeing held in position by the exceedingly\nrough surface of the rock, the hypersthene\ncristels of which project from its surface\nlike studs on a boot heel, & render\nit easy & safe to move along slopes of\n30o & upwards, without ever a suspicion\nof slipping. The walk back from our\nelevated position & along the dreary\nvalley was a terrible fatigue & we\ndid not get to the Sligachan Hotel till\nnear 8 PM. Except for about 4 miles\nof a pony-back, Mrs Hooker walked &\nwe\nclimbed it all, & bad as it was much\npreferred it to the bog trot that we had\nto the Storr on the previous trip.\nThe Geology of the Island is most-\ninteresting, but not objectiory so\nit must have taken much time\npatience experience & knowledge\nto have recognised the Miocene,\nLias, & lower beds that are\nhere",
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"text": "my discovery of the fossil wood in Kerguelans\nland will find its place in the geological\nhistory of the Southern regions. I am greatly\ndisappointed at none of the later\nExpeditions having searched there for\nleaf-beds.\ne have had here Mrs Lyell & son &\ndaughter, Miss Lyell (Sir Cha- sister)&\nMr Symonds -- they left yesterday for\nthe Gair Loch & we follow tonight.\nTomorrow night we sleep at Inverness,\n& on Saturday reach Aviemore, & then\nas soon as Scotch hospitality will let\nus away, go to Stirling to see my sister\nan\n& a an old college & India friend for a\nnight - then to Sir J Colvilles for 3\nnights near Dunfermline & so\nhome. A letter might reach me at \nAviemore, - but P.O. Stirling would\nbe safer.\nThe weather has been perfect on\nthe whole & the sea beautifully calm.\nWith Kind regards to Oliver and\nSmiths. Ever my dear Dyer\nYour truant friend\nJos.D.Hooker",
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"text": "Sept. 25 76 [36\nThe Doune Monday\nAviemore\nMy dear Dyer\nI have your three letters &\nenclosures received here. That\nvery\nof Prestoe is quite distressing. &\nI am quite at a loss what to\ndo. Please write him a note\nby next mail expressing our sympathy\n& tell him that I shall go to\nthe C.O. about it as soon as I\nreturn, but that with only his\n\"Strictly private & confidential\nletter\" to act upon, I cannot\ndo much. The best thing I\ncan think of would be that\nsome friend of the Garden in\nTrinidad would draw up\na brief statement for the Gardeners",
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"text": "B. A.- I wonder at Lane Fox\nWhat you tell me respecting the\nHeveas is most disheartening.\nAll I can hope for is that if they\nare killed, it may bring about\na better state of things as regards\npernaiial\nthe financial relations of the I. O. & Kew.\n-that subject must soon\nbe grappled with -- but for a row\nwith Markham, the best thing\nwould be an official repre-\nrepresentation from Kew, approved\nby Strachey . whose scientific\nI am not surprized at Thwaite's\nposition Ld Salisbury acknowledges. \nnot quite liking the job.- he is\ngetting old & as the \"Times\" says\nof dizzy it age brings experience\nbut with it the reluctance to",
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"text": "3\nAlderley Grange\nOct 1/76\nMy dear Dyer\nThanks for your\ncapital letter. We arrived here\nyesterday afternoon after a long\nnight journey from Stirling\nwhich we left at 9 on the\nprevious evening. The most\ninteresting thing I have seen\nsince I last wrote is Sir. Mr. Stirling\nMaxwell's house at Keir near\nStirling -- he was not at home\nus\nbut the house keeper took me\nover & I was amazed at the\nwealth of articles of historic\ninterest & beauty, pictures,\nportraits, engravings, glass, china,\nold -- silver -- & stone work, furniture,\nfittings &c &c &c & all arranged with",
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"text": "Nylander's collection. Nor did\nI suppose that it was a very\nextensive one: he used to\nprofess to care little for any\nHerb. of his own if I remember\naright. I have still to get\nfrom Oliver a list of the collections\nhe does buy to let Berkeley\nknow, as if I understood B.\naright we are both (Kew & Berkeley\nbuying the same things.\nGammie I suppose can be\neasily replaced, not so Hartog -\nthat is to say not so by a better\nthe pay is so small -- what do\nyou say to Traill? I doubt\nhowever anyone's satisfying\nThwaites now, -- I hope that Hartog",
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"text": "Kew Nov 12/\n76\nDear Dyer\nYour welcome letter arrived\nlast night. We were pretty anxious\nto hear how you were impressed\nwith N Italy. & I am very glad \nindeed to get your early impressions,\nwhich are always worth a dozen\nof recollections after reaching home.\nI do not wonder at your rapture\nover Verona & St Marks at\nVenice- but wonder that the\nrest of the other features of the\nlatter did not impress you more,\nespecially the grand rising of the\nseen from\nmasses of buildings as everywhere\nthe Canals & sea. Also I always\nthought that I never had realised\nthe power of painting till I\nsaw the Titians & Paul Veronese in",
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"text": "or Academia I forget which\nthe Scuola I wholly agree with you\nabout the Tintorettos -- I never\ncould abide them.\nEverything goes on quite quiet\nhere, but the R.S. absorbs more\n& more of my time, & this\nin re\nstruggle between the Brit Mus\nChallenger collection, is about to\ncome off. I am sent for to the\nTreasury on Wednesday, & shall\nfight hard for Thomson having\nsupreme control under a\nConsult of the R S. The Treasury\nare apes to have meddled in\nthe affair, & I do not think the\nAdmiralty have acted well in \ntransferring the collection to\nthe Treasury out of funding funk",
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"text": "of the Brit Mus I expect.\nsent\nThe estimates are in &I hope\nwe shall get the advance\nmen.\nthe Herb. A Bailiff of the\nParks has been appointed\nin the shape of a 1/2 pay officer of\nR.E.- who has been a road\nsurveyor in Yorkshire. He is to\nhave some £4-500 -- & I think\nhas £1200 a year of his own.\nThe appt is said to be Mitford's\nmaking! Callender disapproves of it.\nHumphrey's has been making\ntender enquiries after you. I\nhave told him that you may\nbe back about 22nd, but\npray do not let this hurry you\nbut stay on:-- he wants you for\nsome examination.\nTwo seeds of Welwitschia have",
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"text": "June 26/77\nMy dear Dyer\nI must answer your\nnotes however briefly if\nto say how gratified I am\nonly\nat having received them.\nI sent your wife & books\nby passenger train yesterday\nto Betws-y-coed. -- & have no\nnews of any consequence about\nthe Gardens. Except that I found\nhad (between ourselves) signs\nof yielding on the part of the\nBoard in the matter of the\nWall. I have sent two\nmost vigorous remonstrances\n& have held out the prospect",
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"text": "of the counter--cries of \"Jobbery\n& \"Kew in danger\" -- together\nwith a deputation of the\nHorticultural interest on\nour side. Mitford has\npromised to be firm, & will\nbe so I do not doubt.\nbut the opposition of Engleheart\n& the Selwyn people & Stock\n& Co is furious. If danger\nthreatens I must leave it to\nyou & Smith to go move the\nGardening papers & Horticultural\ninterest in our favor.\nI have written complaining of\nstuff\nthe atrocious stuff that Carless",
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"text": "to let Carless bring in his bad\nstuff till Smith shut the\ngates in the faces of the carts.\nGregory has just left; he\nis quite disposed to take\nMorris & I am to write him\na letter for him to take to\nC.O. about him. He will\nwrite to Ceylon to treat Hartog\nliberally & send him home\nwith enough to pay his debts.\nMorris is quite set upon\ngoing. & will I think quite\nsuit.\nI have nearly done 3 months\nBot. Mag & will ask Oliver\nto look after it -- as heretofore.\nJosDHooker\nEvr affectionately ys",
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"text": "Salt Lake City\nUtah\nAug 7\nMy dear Dyer\nI received your wellcome\nof July 13\nletter at Denvers two days ago --\nit had arrived after me all round\nColorado. I need not say I am\nmost glad to hear of your being\nsettled & not altogether overwhelmed\nwith the duties, though for the\npresent they must be very hard\n& trying. Mrs Hodgson most\nkindly wrote me a little account\nof her visit to you & Harriet -\nwhich made me very glad.\nAs for me I never worked\nharder in my life -- there is so\nthe incessant\nmuch to learn\ncollecting & packing\ntravelling adds enormously to\nthe drudgery.\nI am very pleased",
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"text": "to have picked up the knowledge\nhave of the\nI already\ntrees & especially of the Pines\nof Colorado & hope before I get\nback to have such a knowledge\nof the habits & habitats of the\nWestern Conifers as no one else\nhas. The association of so\nmany species is a feature\nquite new to me, & such as\nexists no where else. To find 8\nor 10 Conifers on one Mt. is a\nmarvellous feature in vegetation.\nThus in Colorado we have between\n5 &10000 ft -- Pinus edulis, ponderosa,\naristata & flexilis Abies Douglasii\nMenziesii & Engelmannii (varieties of\none) -- Picea concolor & Juniperus\nvirginiana, occidentalis & communis,\nall abundant. Of these except &\ntwo of the Junipers none are found",
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"text": "referred to a Committee of Experts.\nI cannot understand Board going\nin for nothing but Rivers untried\nBoilers. I advocated 4 improved\nsaddles & 2 accessories which\nmight be Rivers\nI quite expected that the F.C. would\n would advocate a reduced height of wall\n& did all I could to prevent it,\nI do hope that you have carried\nthe point of going on with the\nwall out of the money voted for\npainting the Fern house. The F.C.\nwas convinced that the wall\nmust be heightened. -- If the Board\ngive the Kewites the victory (real\nor apparent) in this matter, I must\nremonstrate even more vigorously.\nTheir reports & remontrances were\nmost unfair to me & false. By\nrights I should have been present\nat the deputation to have defended",
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"text": "Myself\nAs to Wilkie & the contractor\nam in utter despair. The only\nway is to report to the Board\nall negligence & bad material\n& establish a law upon the\nworks sept Dept\nI am not impressed at what\nyou tell me of the quicksands\nunder the P.H. I always was\ngiven to understand that the\nbottoming & ground work which\nwas a contractors work was\nvery bad & that moreover the\nsite of the building was a bog.\nwhereas the upper works\nif iron glass & store were\nwonderfully good -- It is well you\ndetected the faulty piers -- but\nyou & Smith must continue to\nput your eyes upon everything\nI cannot tell you how much",
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"text": "I am partly pulling through\nthough troubled\npretty well\n& completely\nwith diarrhea\non Mule or pony back\ncovered with bruises chiefly\nfrom tearing through the Aspen\nbushes on the Mountains &\nslipping on stones. I got up to\n14300 on Gray's peak without difficulty\n(on my legs) but I have not\nthe wind & muscle I had &\nindeed the Mountain climbing\nhere is pretty severe work. When\nnear the lip of G.P. in a severe\nhail storm, the Electric fluid\nfizzed out at the side is my head\nlike the fiz out is a half drawn\nS. W. bottle. Followed by a loud\nclap of thunder -- soon after\nI had a shock in my arm followed\nby another clap. The fluid also\nfizzed from the horse's ears, & a Mr\nDarrell (son of Judge D. of Bermuda",
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"text": "but have not nearly so varied\narboreous\nor grand an\nas\nThe tree vegetation\nvegetation. The as the Nevada.\nSierra\nof the Nevada is indeed unrivalled\nfor a temperate, climate, especially \n(indeed almost entirely) due to the\nmagnificence of the conifers which\nfar exceeded my imagination in\nstatelyness & bulk though I cannot\ncall them beautiful, & feel sure that\nas ornamental features they will be\nutter failures & worse.\nYour letter has been a great pleasure\nto me. I thank you especially for your\ninterest in Charlie in respect of whose\nfuture I intensely agree with you. I did\nhope that I should have interested\nhim in some higher branch of his\nprofession -- or at least in the theory of\nit. I so keenly feel the deficiencies of\nmy own early education & fancy (perhaps\nquite wrongly) that if I had had\nthe advantages that modern thought\n& education has extended to\nMedicine & Surgery, I should have been",
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"text": "a much better naturalist than I am\nI also cannot help thinking that the\nI do) regret the loss of a good foundation in\ntime will come when Charlie will (as\nphysiology & organic chemistry, & in the\nhistory of medicine & surgery. However\nmust content myself with what\npurposes, & be thankful if he uses\nhe chooses to think enough for his\nit well\nThere is I fear some bungling about\nat the I.Office\nWilly's position which was to have\nbeen in the shipping dept. he had\nbetter see Strachey about it, who was\nto sail on 21st of this month.\nThanks for the Telegraphs & Echo\nthe last of which has diverted us\namazingly -- Mr Proctor has so\noverdone it, that it can only do us\nall good -- but I do regret to see\nan English paper adopt the\nunscrupulous tone & language of\nall American ones, & be ready to\ngive publicity to any communication\nwithout any enquiry into its truth\nI am sorry that the delay of news\nof me caused any anxiety but it",
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"text": "was not my fault as you know\nby this time.\nexplaining my blunder in so doing.\nYes I took the Camera, & wrote\nStrachey lent his Camera to Harriet\n& asked me to bring it -- I found\nthis in the drawer where she was\nsitting & took for granted it was\nwhat Strachey wanted. It is all safe\nat Boston. I hope that I have\nnot inconvenienced you.\nI cannot tell you how pleased I\nam to hear that you have had\nthe wall carried out. I did not\nin the least expect it seeing the\nmood the 1s Comm. was in: & I felt\nmuch aggrieved at the thought\nof you being troubled. In fact I\nhad been real down in the mouth\nabout it, not daring to hope\nthat you would succeed with the\nBoard in getting it continued.\nI do not wonder that you quake at\nmust\nSmiths absence -- but we\nremember how he quaked at\nmy much longer absences, & how",
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"text": "much more of my work he did in my\nI did of his in\nabsence than\nhis absence.\nThanks for\ninteresting letter\nKirks very\nnote on the Dacrydea to the\nI sent a\nIcones with a figure of the new one\nhe sent - & I hope that all is right\nabout them.\nAs to Astilbe & Spiraea I well remember\nhaving great difficulty in unravelling\nthem in the collections when I did the\nSaxifrageae, & can quite believe that\nI made amess -- I am not surprised\nat Clarke's method of work -- but am\nmuch disgusted, as he promised faith-\nfully to follow the precepts laid down\nas to my referring him to you as \"Subeditor\"\nthe idea is absurd, what I told him was,\nthat in any doubt or difficulty as to\ncitations & methods & s forth you\nwould I felt sure gladly tell him\nwhat my practice was, as you\nhad followed it in regard to the\nDipterocarpeae & in correcting proofs of\nother orders for me. We shall have\ndifficulty I fear in working with the\nman & possibly the best solution",
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"text": "will be that he publish in the\nLinnean according\nto his own\nsweet will\nas to his\nbothering you on the official correspondence\non the subject, it is intolerable.\nThe Railway disturbances have not\naffected us, & indeed we have had\nno let or hindance hitherto of any\nKind -- as to Indians I have not\nseen a score\nthem altogether; we\n(that had gorged itself & could scarce move);\nhave killed but one rattlesnake seen\nseen one grizzly bear (in confinement at\na Railway station) -- had no\nearthguages here yet & altogether had\na hum-drum life of very hard\nwork indeed.\nSan Francisco is a horrid place\n& the country about it vile looking --\nbare red hills all around: still\nthe quantity of interesting herbaceous\nplants one sees is astonishing, &\nin spring the whole country is said to\nbe enamelled with flowers (which\nI can well believe) where nothing but\nred earth & dust is now to be",
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"text": "seen. Bolander has cut Botany & taken\nto education, we called twice on him to\nwas out both times &\nday -- but he has not ever returned our\ncall: he may yet, but Gray has reason\nto Monterey to see the forest of Cup.\nto think him strange. We go hence\nmacrocarpa & P[inus]. insignis, then N. to\nMendocino County to visit the forests\nof Red wood (Sequoia) &c; then if possible\nto Shasta Butte to find out what is\nmeant by Picea grandis: & I hope\nto get away from Boston on the steamer\nof the 22d. -- What with narrow\ngauge lumber trains, 2--, 4--, 5-- horse\nwagons, ponys, mules & our legs\nwe get over a monstrous deal of ground\nregardless of expense, fatigue, & wear\nsleep & food, & pick up an\nenormous deal of Botany en-route.\nThis is a queer climate, fancy my\nbeing cold during the day, with an overcoat\non & my thick scotch plaid -- all through\nthe strong W. wind over the Pacific:\nwhich blows, usually with thick fog\nat this season, every afternoon. You see\nladies wrapped in furs every where.\nI was delighted to see the Pacific again",
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"text": "Newhaven\nConnecticut\nSept 22 / 77\nMy dear Dyer\nI have at last returned to\nEastern American civilization &\nwithout regret, for I am pretty\nwell fagged out with the hard\nwork of our occidental trip. I\nhave stopped here a day to\nspend it with my friend Prof\nEaton who with his new bride\nstaid at Kew in 1866 & was much\nwith us -- he was & is a great fern\nman, & is bringing out an illustrated\nbook on the Ferns of the U States.\nNew Haven is a wonderfully pretty \nall\nplace & this indeed may be said\nof the Eastern States that I have\nseen -- they are all so green varied in\nscenery wooded watered & grassed with\nthe ocean in addition on the sea-board.\nWe travelled Eastward day &\nnight for 6 days & nights from",
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"text": "symptoms.\nSo much of what is to both of us\nI am sure, a most distressing subject\nI have not seen very much of the\nAssociation -- I send you Spottiswoode's\nAddress. Flower promised me his\non the Linnaeus classification of\nMammals. -- which he highly lauded\nconsidering the material, it was\nHuxley gave\nthought very well of\nto day\nonly a verbal address I did not\nhear it as I spent most of the\nday with Glasnevin with Moore\n& shall go again for another day\nI find he falling off in his\nGarden (since 1864), but quite the\ncontray -- it is quite admirable\nThe collection of Tree Ferns is\nsuprisingly fine & the Conifers have\ngrown amazingly since I last saw\nthem. Suringar is here & the",
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