Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] [to George Maw]

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Scope & content: No address or greeting. Manuscript

The two spathes should be in one paragraph; the tube, throat and segments of perianth should be under one heading of ‘perianth’; the pollen should be in the same paragraph as the anthers; Baker [John Gilbert Baker, botanist, keeper of the Kew Herbarium] thinks that the Latin diagnosis should be in ablative, but as it is a full description not a brief one, he thinks it is better in sentences beginning with a nominative; he thanks Maw for the Crocus that arrived yesterday. Undated [Mar 1880; the subject matter matches letters written in Mar 1880]. 1 page letter (1 sheet)

Enclosed is a note in a different hand which reads ‘Authorities in chronological order. Diagnosis in ablative. Limb - segments. Too many paragraphs in description; dele [delete] commas after organs’. It is initialled ‘JGB’ [John Gilbert Baker] in ink possibly in a different hand again, and a pencil sketch of a branching line is on the verso. Undated [c.Mar 1880; the subject matter matches letters written in Mar 1880]. 2 page enclosure (1 sheet)

Credit Line: Courtesy of David Symonds Hooker / The Descendants of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker / RHS Lindley Collections