Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
JHC245
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
JDH/2/22/2 f.77
Grant Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
28-10-1874
© Descendants of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Asa Gray Correspondence
The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
English
Original MS
3 page letter over 1 folio
 
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would have were it properly situated & wholly reorganised.
Wishing you a most pleasant & successful journey.
I am yours sincerely | J D Hooker [signature]

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Hooker
ROYAL GARDENS KEW
Oct 28/[18]74

Dear Grant Duff *1
I sent letters to Calcutta, Madras & Bombay *2 Gardens, but I have not a notion who is at Saharenpore*3, if anyone -- as Dr Jameson *4 has left quite lately.
Benson *5 of Madras is a very superior man; King *6 I think you saw when he was home on leave two years ago -- If you go

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to Kandy in Ceylon *7 you will of course see Thwaites *8 a most accomplished man an F.R.S. & great friend of Gregory's.*9
Kindly remember that any interest you can show in the Calcutta Garden before "the powers that be," will be useful -- that Garden has an enormous field of utility before it, or rather

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would have were it properly situated & wholly reorganised.
Wishing you a most pleasant & successful journey.
I am yours sincerely | J D Hooker [signature]

ENDNOTES


1. Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829--1906). Scottish politician, author and administrator. He served as the Under Secretary of State for India from 1868 to 1874, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1880 to 1881 and the Governor of Madras from 1881 to 1886. Letters from Grant Duff to RBG Kew can also be found in our online collection of Directors’ Correspondence hosted at http://plants.jstor.org/
2. Calcutta, Madras and Bombay now known respectively as Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai.
3. Saharanpore now known as Saharanpur.
4. Deputy Surgeon-General William Jameson (1815--1882) Saharanpur Garden Superintendent from 1844 to 1875.
5. Charles Benson, Assistant Superintendent, Government Farms, Madras http://library.adelaide.edu.au/coll/archives//series169/169-161/161-0010/
6. Sir George King (1840--1909), British botanist, superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890.
7. Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka.
8. George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1811--1882).English botanist and entomologist, superintendent of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon.
9. Sir William Henry Gregory (1817-- 1892), an Anglo-Irish writer and politician. Governor of Ceylon 1871--1877 and Fellow of the Royal Society.

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