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you, I know you must be busy & I hope that you keep your health.
Soon I shall have the pleasure of sending you a selection[?] of my father’s*3 life & work, which will appear in The Annals of Botany*4.
I have been busy of late & writing an essay on the Botany of British India for the new Edition of the Imperial Gazetteer of India*5. I have no idea when it will appear.
Very Sincerely Yours[?] | JosDHooker [signature]
The Camp
Sunningdale
Dec[ember] 1, 1902
Dear Mr. Ridley*1,
I have been asked by a friend to encourage a young botanist or rather aspirant for[?] to that title & I have taken the liberty of telling him that I would mention him to you. He is Mr. Stephen Langton*2 of the Straits Civil Service stationed at Kuala Selangor. He took a good degree at Oxford. Perhaps you already know him.
It is long since I have had the pleasure of hearing of or from
you, I know you must be busy & I hope that you keep your health.
Soon I shall have the pleasure of sending you a selection[?] of my father’s*3 life & work, which will appear in The Annals of Botany*4.
I have been busy of late & writing an essay on the Botany of British India for the new Edition of the Imperial Gazetteer of India*5. I have no idea when it will appear.
Very Sincerely Yours[?] | JosDHooker [signature]
1. Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG, MA, FRS, F.R.H.S., 1855--1956, English botanist, geologist and naturalist, known as “Mad Ridley” for his enthusiasm in establishing rubber trees in the Malay Peninsula, lived most of his life in Singapore
2. Stephen Langton, [I was unable to find information on a Stephen Langton that corresponded to a Straits Civil Servant in 1902]
3. Sir William Jackson Hooker, 1785--1865, appointed the first director of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1841, father of Joseph Dalton Hooker
4. Annals of Botany, founded in 1887, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press
5. Imperial Gazetteer of India, first published in 1881 by Sir William Wilson Hunter, the first of the New Editions was published in 1909 by Oxford University Press
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