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/1/98
Date
5 Sep 1871
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
Lynch [Richard Irwin Lynch] will go to Maw’s on Friday; he asks Maw to send him anything new worth figuring and he will get Fitch [Walter Hood Fitch, botanical artist] to do it; he has reviewed the dried plants and is disappointed regarding their novelty and interest; he has found 1,200 species of pheenogaum[?] in his herbarium; he thanks Maw for his offer of sharing the cost of figuring the Barbary [Berber region, Morocco] plants when they flower, and will consult him as to terms after they have a few done; the ‘Spectator’ article is probably true, but it is difficult to protect such ‘vagabonds’ as the first and keenest traders at hazardous ports; Hay [John Drummond Hay, British minister resident to Morocco] is ‘used up’; ‘when a good official does make a mistake from overseas, the merchants and press are the first to hound him’