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/1/139
Date
8 Mar 1875
Scope & content
No address. Manuscript
He thanks Maw for the ‘lovely little thing’, which Baker [John Gilbert Baker, botanist, keeper of the Kew Herbarium] says is the true plant; the plant figured in the ‘Botanical Magazine’ is in fact Crocus biflorus; he will figure Maw’s and write to Barton [unidentified] for bulbs of Crocus biflorus; Harriet [Harriet Anne Hooker, botanical artist, his daughter] leaves [for Algeria] on Wednesday with her brother