Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/90
Date
6 Jul 1871
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
Maw’s plant is Astragalus alopecuroides, and he thinks it is identical to the Riviera species; the Haha species of Euphorbia arrived ‘rather rotten but in fair order’, and he has potted them and put aside the best for Maw; he thanks Maw for drying plants for him and for offering to allow him to take any specialities; he will be happy to have Maw’s named with theirs; Ball [John Ball, botanist] proposes writing a joint florula of Morocco and including an account of the country, its physical and botanical geography and its climate; he has just figured a lilac Sedum that they sent home; he is charmed to hear that the composite is coming up; he will hunt for seeds as soon as he breaks open the collections; he thanks Maw for the Rabat pottery and for the offer of the Moorish tables which he accepts; he is ‘incubating his opuscule’ but has hardly written anything yet, as he is overwhelmed with letters and visitors; Ball found that Maw’s elevations were almost correct after all, and he offers to send a copy; Ball is off to Germany for two months, and did not offer to pay any share of Crump’s [Edward Crump, a Kew gardener who accompanied them to Morocco] expenses; he has settled everything with Crump; he encloses Ball’s accounts which he cannot understand, hoping that Maw will be able to; he has £6 12s 10d to give Maw from Ball; the Geographical Society are printing his letters to Murchison [Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society] and he has asked for separate copies; he asks Maw to visit him and settle up when he is next in town; Reeks [unidentified] tells him that Maw’s pottery at the International is unmatched in design and artistic prowess; he is sending a list of names of plants to be written on tallies as the earlier ones were; the small list is for outdoor trees, and the long list for hothouse and greenhouse plants