Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
JHC491
The Camp, Sunningdale, Berkshire, United Kingdom
JDH/2/16 f.134
Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Turner
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
4-12-1893
© Descendants of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Letters to Thiselton-Dyer
The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
English
Original MS
2 page letter over 1 folio
 
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The Camp, Sunningdale.
Dec[ember]r 4 /93
My dear Dyer*1
You may care to see the enclosed. I hope to hear soon what King has to say about Prain. The account of poor Morris is far from good, bad in short, & I do feel for you. With such a load of anxiety on your shoulders.
Who is the censurer of "the Royal" in the Times? I violently object to the whole tone of his article & most especially to the introduction of person & personalities. Far too much has been done of late towards making of the

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The Camp, Sunningdale.
Dec[ember]r 4 /93
My dear Dyer*1
You may care to see the enclosed. I hope to hear soon what King has to say about Prain. The account of poor Morris is far from good, bad in short, & I do feel for you. With such a load of anxiety on your shoulders.
Who is the censurer of "the Royal" in the Times? I violently object to the whole tone of his article & most especially to the introduction of person & personalities. Far too much has been done of late towards making of the

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Society a Public Institution in the biggest sense of the word.
I am about suffocated by Panicum -- the extreme difficulty of ascertaining what old authors meant by their descriptions, the number of synonyms for each species, & the number of species to which the names of others have been applied makes a regular spider's webb[sic] of the nomenclature. I have also to modify Bentham's work, which is a v[er]y ungracious task as well as a hard one.
Ev[er] aff[ectionatel]y y[our]s | J D Hooker [signature]

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1. Sir William 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 also married Hooker's eldest daughter Harriet in 1877.

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