Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/140
Date
22 Mar 1875
Scope & content
s [Claude Gay, botanist] drawings is published; he worries that Reeve and Co would not pay for a really good publication, as it would cost a lot to do justice to Gay’s drawings, which are exquisite; there are 90 drawings, and he and Baker feel that 120 plates would be required to do justice to the genus; he asks where the money would come from; it would take a large number of subscribers to pay for such a work; Harriet [Harriet Anne Hooker, botanical artist, his daughter] and Willy [William Henslow Hooker, his son] arrived at Algiers [Algeria] on Monday, after a dreadful but short passage