Letter from J.D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from J.D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/200
Date
16 Mar 1880
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He gives some points and advice that would make the proof even more perfect; Maw should write in a publically accepted manner to avoid confusion and it being thought of as careless typography; Maw must be consistent in the way he writes synonyms, and if he wants to inform the public on one particular synonym he should do so in the descriptive section; ‘the proclivity of neophytes…..is to start a new practice and bitterly to regret it afterwards’ so he suggests that Maw stick to current practice with his citations, and also keep an alphabetic list of works cited under the contractions he adopts, so as to be uniform; he himself has frequently regretted not paying enough attention to the details of synonyms