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interest in the African species is very much centred in the craving of my fingers to be dissecting & drawing so long as I can do this with to some good purpose -- for the benefit of Herb[arium] Kew.
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When the Paris specimens arrive I will give an hour or two a day to this, & when completed ask the Director for the loan of the Kew Africans & collate them with the Paris ones, in doing which Warburg's clavis will be an aid.
Ever sincerely y[ou]rs | Jos. D. Hooker [signature]
TELEGRAMS, WINDLESHAM.
THE CAMP,*1
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.
October 17 1909
My dear Stapf*2
A large parcel of periodicals is being packed for Kew, it includes King's*3 two papers.
Very many thanks for the offer of a typed copy of Warburg's*4 sections (clavis down to the sections)*5 I should be very glad of it to compare with sections of Asiatic species. As however I do not entertain any intention of taking up the African as a whole or in detail, or for publication, I will not accept your generous offer to translate the Key from the German.
The long & short of it is, that my
interest in the African species is very much centred in the craving of my fingers to be dissecting & drawing so long as I can do this with to some good purpose -- for the benefit of Herb[arium] Kew.
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When the Paris specimens arrive I will give an hour or two a day to this, & when completed ask the Director for the loan of the Kew Africans & collate them with the Paris ones, in doing which Warburg's clavis will be an aid.
Ever sincerely y[ou]rs | Jos. D. Hooker [signature]
1. Joseph Hooker had a residence built in Sunningdale, Berkshire called 'The Camp'. Completed in 1882 he lived there full time, with his second wife Hyacinth and their family, after retiring from RBG Kew in 1885.
2. Otto Stapf FRS (1852--1933) an Austrian botanist and taxonomist. He moved to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1890, becoming keeper of the Herbarium in 1909--1920.
3. Sir George King (1840--1909) a British botanist and superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India. Recognised for his work in the cultivation of cinchona, he set up an inexpensive system to distribute quinine throughout India by mail.
4. Otto Warburg (1859--1938). German botanist, was also a notable industrial agriculture expert. An active member of the Zionist Organisation he served as president from 1911--21.
5. A note has been added in the margin next to this sentence, written in the hand of Otto Stapf, it reads: "Typed copy sent of clav[is] sent[sic] 20.X.09."
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