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/1/174
Date
14 Sep 1878
Scope & content
Written from Kew. Manuscript
Maw may want to see the enclosed [enclosure not present]; the books arrived safely during his absence; they returned last Monday from Ireland and he has not had a chance to read Maw’s America notes, which he is very interested in; he does not know how far Maw’s Great Lake area subsidence runs with Dana’s fluvial and terrace epochs of the Lakes, which Hooker alluded to in his lecture on the American flora, of which he sent a copy to Broseley for Maw; he finds it hard to imagine the subsidence of the Lakes because of the extreme narrowness of their brims and their great depth; since beginning this letter he has read Maw’s notes with great interest; he supposes that Maw means that the Lakes, as well as their narrow bounding watershed, drained into the Mississippi; if this were so, there would be old channels with gravel and such along the watershed between the Lakes affluents and the Mississippi affluents; the acute angle at which the Maumee feeders flowed into it the reverse way to its own course is very curious and seems in all focus with Maw’s hypothesis; they had a good meeting in Dublin, and visited the Glasnevin Garden; they spent two days at Killarney, one awful and some fair days at Cork and Queenstown, where the vegetation enchanted him; the Dyers [William Turner Thiselton-Dyer and his wife, Hooker’s daughter Harriet] left on Wednesday for Switzerland; he asks if Maw will be in town before the season is over for the herbaceous ground; he asks if Maw accomplished the object of his America trip; he encloses a note from Thurber [George Thurber, American naturalist] who regrets not having seen Maw [enclosure not present]