JDH thanks Sir William Turner Thiseton-Dyer for his offer to assist JDH with the Macmillan Science Primer [BOTANY]. JDH's plan for the book is to write a series of short introductions to plants incl. some on physiology. The book would be in two parts: facts for the pupil & things they must observe for themselves. JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer to help him write the physiology introductions, he has already written one on cell contents but thinks Thiselton-Dyer could do it better.
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Kew
Sunday 1875*2
Dear Dyer*1
I am indeed obliged for your kind offer of this morning but perplexed how to avail myself of it.
If I might return to my original plan, of commencing with a series of curtly expressed introductory statements relative to plants as a whole I could then devote a few of them to physiology. This was my very first idea, & I still think first ideas the best. The Primer*3 would then consist of 2 parts, I. Things
Kew
Sunday 1875*2
Dear Dyer*1
I am indeed obliged for your kind offer of this morning but perplexed how to avail myself of it.
If I might return to my original plan, of commencing with a series of curtly expressed introductory statements relative to plants as a whole I could then devote a few of them to physiology. This was my very first idea, & I still think first ideas the best. The Primer*3 would then consist of 2 parts, I. Things
that must be told the pupil -- II. Things that the pupil may see for himself.
Could you embody the principal physiological facts in such paragraphs as the enclosed? If so how many?
I had made one on the cell-contents -- but you would do it far better.
Ever Sincerely yours | Jos D Hooker [signature]
Pray come over if you can at 11am.
1. Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843--1928). British botanist and third Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1885--1905). He succeeded Joseph Hooker in the role after serving as his Assistant Director for ten years. He previously held professorships at the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester, Royal College of Science for Ireland and Royal Horticultural Society. He married Hooker's eldest daughter Harriet in 1877.
2. The year has been added in a pencil annotation written in another hand.
3. Refers to the series of 'Science Primer' books published by Macmillan, for which Hooker wrote the volume entitled Botany (1876).
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