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/1/85
Date
25 Mar 1871
Scope & content
No address. Manuscript
He has bought the knives, scissors, needles and such, which came to about £6; he has ordered barometric tubes to act at 6,000 and 1,000 feet, at 35 shillings each; he found a good light wooden bed at Edgmontons for £1 7s 6d; he thanks Maw for his notes on boxes, and will try wooden ones; he will get Maw the tent hook-strap and the eye screen; he thanks Maw for notes on the Androsace, which he will call Androsace carnea var. eximia; he does not think the ‘Botanical Magazine’ will make it a new species in the face of Cosson [Ernest Cosson, botanist], Ball [John Ball, botanist] and Gay [Claude Gay, botanist], European botanists who know all forms of Androsace carnea carnea, but he agrees it is very different; Androsace carnea wulfeniana is a single-flowered species; he found Davidson in the GS [Geological Society] library, as well as a book by Captain Beauclerk [George Beauclerk] who talks about pretty girls, mosquito fevers, locusts, itch and ague