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

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Scope & content: Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript

The Saxifraga florulenta seeds enclosed were received yesterday; their plants are dead, which Lynch [Richard Irwin Lynch] thinks was caused by damp; he asks who the authority is for Salvia taraxacifolia; he sees that Maw has decided to go to Sierra Nevada [Spain], and wishes he could go too; he thanks Maw for the newspaper with his section on Marocco [Morocco]; if he ever publishes, he will depend on Maw’s journal more than ever; he is wearied by his fight with Ayrton [Acton Smee Ayrton, politician, first commissioner of works], who means to ‘worry’ him out of Kew and send its science to the British Museum, then make a park out of the garden; he is ‘in the thick of a hot fight’ which Ben Daoud [a resident of Essaouira, Morocco, known to cause dissent] has nothing on

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