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/1/99
Date
17 Sep 1871
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He is figuring Xiphion filifolia [Iris filifolia] for the ‘Botanical Magazine’ from Maw’s Gibraltar specimen; he asks for further details; they only have it from Gibraltar in the herbarium; he asks the whereabouts of Sierra Bermeja [Spain], where Boissier [Pierre Edmond Boissier, botanist] discovered it; he asks if they found it in Marocco [Morocco] but does not think they did; he encloses Hay’s [John Drummond Hay, British minister resident to Morocco] last [enclosure not present]; Watson still has all his Marocco collections; he has heard nothing of Ball [John Ball, botanist]; he asks if Maw wants to see Rogers’ [Freeman Rogers, who provided translations of Moorish fables for Hooker’s eventual book] letters to him; his mother [Maria Sarah Hooker] is very ill at Torquay and they are very anxious; he thanks Maw for his kindness to Lynch [Richard Irwin Lynch]; Baker [John Gilbert Baker, botanist, keeper of the Kew Herbarium] is away but should return this week; his journal makes slow progress but not from want of will; he asks if Maw took two trips after the one on which he found Iris tingitanum