Download or read book William Jackson Hooker and John Torrey Correspondence 1821 1857 written by Sir William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Jackson Hooker and John Torrey Correspondence written by Sir William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Sir William Jackson Hooker to John Torrey, dated 1821-1857. Hooker's early letters to Torrey, nearly all written from Glasgow, Scotland, are full of encouragement and professional discussion. Specimens and books are sent regularly back and forth across the Atlantic, and Hooker frequently comments on the schedules of ships coming up the Clyde. After Torrey's 1833 trip to Europe and their first meeting in person, Hooker takes to addressing Torrey as "My dear friend." He refers often to his sons William and Joseph, telling Torrey of their activities and his hopes for their future. "Should insects be collected," he writes in 1836, "I shall not be unwilling to take a portion of them (for Joseph) particularly Beetles." In several instances Hooker refers Torrey to acquaintances who are visiting or emigrating to the States, including a man named George MacDonald who is involved with the colony in Liberia. Hooker notes the deaths of colleagues (Croom off the coast of North Carolina, Douglas in the Sandwich Islands, and Gardner in Ceylon, among others), of his eldest son William in Jamaica, and later his daughter Mary and his own father. (Several letters are written on mourning stationary.) Hooker keeps Torrey up to date on the professional accomplishments of his remaining son Joseph Dalton Hooker, who he refers to respectfully in later years as "Dr. Hooker." Now living at Kew and overseeing the new Botanic Garden there ("It is really a noble place & boasts some noble Houses & very very many fine plants..."), Hooker writes more personally-- marriages, family trips, the births of grandchildren. Twice Hooker mentions Torrey's brother Lewis, who visits the Hookers on Christmas Day, 1843. Toward the end of the collection he describes in detail the new incarnation of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in London, and the 1855 Exposition Universelle des produits de l'Agriculture, de l'Industrie et des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The collection also includes a fragment of a letter from Hooker to Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, and another full letter to Carl Bernhard von Trinius. One letter to Torrey is written on a flyer for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Alsophila, Hippocastanum, Nelumbium, and Wellingtonia.

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Download or read book Joseph Dalton Hooker and John Torrey Correspondence written by Joseph Dalton Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Joseph Dalton Hooker to John Torrey, dated March 1, 1866, written on mourning stationary. Hooker informs Torrey that, in a recent letter from Asa Gray, he has received "a very nice photograph of yourself in which I can trace the lineaments of a very old & kind friend, with a very thoughtful face..." He tells him that he has asked Francis Boott's widow to forward Torrey a carte de visite of Boott, and adds that he is also enclosing photographs of his father-- who died the precious year-- and himself, with the letter. In closing he adds that his mother and sister are doing "remarkably well" and spending the winter in Torquay.

Download or read book John Miers and John Torrey Correspondence written by John Miers and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from John Miers to John Torrey, dated August 14, 1856, informing Torrey he has received the specimens of the genus Lycium Torrey sent via William Hooker, and that he has identified what he believes are five new species, which he hopes Torrey will publish.

Download or read book Robert Kaye Greville and John Torrey Correspondence written by Robert Kaye Greville and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Robert Kaye Greville to John Torrey, dated 1820-1849. Greville's first letter, dated Novembr 9, 1820, marks the beginning of his correspondence with Torrey; still a medical student, he thanks Torrey for a gift of plant specimens and assures him he will be happy to correspond with him. While Greville does discuss issues of plant identification, his real obsession is botanical literature. His letters are packed with news of the latest publications, and the details of major illustrated works. "You would be surprized [sic] if you knew the disadvantages I labor under in Edinburgh," he writes in 1824. "There is no public library that cares a sixpence for botany. I am obligated to buy all the works I use; and often am as late in seeing things probably as you are." A few years later, Greville is able to discuss his own works, and those he collaborates on, particularly with William Jackson Hooker. In his last letter, dated 1849 and written after a long period of silence between the correspondents, Greville tells Torrey he has gotten rid of his "phaenogamous" plant specimens and is concentrating on the cryptogamia, when he isn't collecting freshwater and land molluscs and working as an artist. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Canna viridiflora and Erica mediterranea.

Download or read book Charles Hooker and John Torrey Correspondence written by Charles Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Charles Hooker to John Torrey, dated approximately between 1838 and 1849, informing Torrey that he has had a student copy out a section from a publication in Benjamin Silliman's library as Torrey requested, and is sending it along to him. The letter probably refers to Adolphe Brongniart's article "Mémoire sur la famille des rhamnées," which appeared in vol. 10 of Annales des sciences naturelles (1827).

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Download or read book Stephen H Long and John Torrey Correspondence written by Stephen Harriman Long and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Stephen H. Long to John Torrey and William Baldwin, dated 1819. The first letter, dated February 18, 1819, is addressed to John Torrey, and describes the possible forms of payment for prospective naturalists participating in Long's upcoming expedition: "It is left optionary with ourselves, whether a pecuniary consideration shall be allowed, or the Naturalists have the privilege of making any disposition they may deem proper, of the Curiosities &c., that we may collect. The utmost compensation that can be allowed is $2.00 per Day and one Ration..." The second letter, dated June 19, 1819, is a copy of official orders from Long to botanist William Baldwin, who participated-- and died-- on that expedition.

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Download or read book William D Brackenridge and John Torrey Correspondence 1847 1855 written by William Dunlop Brackenridge and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Correspondence of Schweinitz and Torrey written by Lewis David von Schweinitz and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: