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June 18/[18]98
THE CAMP,
SUNNINGDALE.
My dear Prain
I have good accounts[?] of King*1: who, from what I hear, has as good as recovered his health. We hope to see him at Kew in another month.
In sending my copy of Kiesh[? illeg.] viii of the Annals I find that King had sent me some duplicate sheets. I hall[?] I return them to you ?
They are
Title[?illeg.] page Vol. viii.
Part iii. O0
Index[?] to Plates in Part. iii.
Letterpress p. p. 257- 342.
I have been overhailing[?] some of
June 18/[18]98
THE CAMP,
SUNNINGDALE.
My dear Prain
I have good accounts[?] of King*1: who, from what I hear, has as good as recovered his health. We hope to see him at Kew in another month.
In sending my copy of Kiesh[? illeg.] viii of the Annals I find that King had sent me some duplicate sheets. I hall[?] I return them to you ?
They are
Title[?illeg.] page Vol. viii.
Part iii. O0
Index[?] to Plates in Part. iii.
Letterpress p. p. 257- 342.
I have been overhailing[?] some of
species of Impatiens as published in Fl. Brit Ind, in view of naming[?] some that have flowered (for Bot. Mag.) here, I am in dispair about them.
Have you good drawings of any? or good duplicates? I should be glad of the loan of any & would more/name[?] them for you, as will as I could that is. I think my classification of them is fairly good, but the limits of some of the Himalayan gigantic ones are very doubtful, & I fear that I have lumped some of Edgeworths*2[?] & Lindleys*3.
I have asked Duthie*4 for help.
Collett is struggling under the revision of the Sincle[?] ones (which he thought he had comfortably settled).
We are looking for a visit from Mrs Prain early in July.
I am glad to see in Gard. Chron[.] that you have an Assistent to the Herbarium appointed. I hope that he will prove satisfactory.
Ever sincerely |Jos. D Hooker. [signature]
Sir George King (1840--1909) was born in Aberdeen where he studied medicine before joining the Bengal Medical Service in 1865. He took charge of the gardens at Saharanpur in 1868, then became Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, a post he held until 1898; he also the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India 1891-1898.He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1860, of the Royal Society in 1887 and was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1901. He was recognized for his work in the cultivation of cinchona and for setting up a system for the inexpensive distribution of quinine throughout India through the postal system. In 1898 King was succeeded at the Calcutta Botanical Gardens by Sir David Prain
Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-1888) was born in Ireland and studied in Edinburgh. He joined the East India Company and from 1831 held a series of administrative posts in various parts of India. He also pursued his interest in botany, collecting plants in India, Sri Lanka and also in Aden. He contributed papers on the botany of India and Aden and the Indian Caryophyllaceae to the Flora of British India. He became a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1842.
John Lindley (1799--1865) botanist and horticulturist. Befriended by William Jackson Hooker, in whose Suffolk home Lindley completed his first botanical publication. Through Hooker's acquaintances he was introduced to Sir Joseph Banks, who employed him as assistant in his library and herbarium. He studied and published during his time there, and was elected to the Linnean and Geological Societies, the Royal Society, and in 1829 became the first Professor of Botany in the University of London. He played a prominent role in the Royal Horticultural Society, and his book collections formed the core of the RHS Library.
John Firminger Duthie (1845 -- 1922). English botanist and explorer who was Superintendent of Saharanpur Botanical Gardens from 1875 – 1903
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