Letters and monograph [manuscript]. 1813-1840.

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Letters and monograph [manuscript]. 1813-1840.

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William Jackson Hooker's "Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809", London 1813, 2 v. together with two letters attached to the back cover, vol. 1. Letter to Ronald Gunn from Hooker, Glasgow 2 December 1833, inquiring about convict Jorgen Jorgenson who was Hooker's assistant on his tour of Iceland. Letter to John Price, then muster master of convicts and assistant police magistrate in Van Diemen's Land, from Jorgenson requesting help with his wife, ex convict Norah Corbett, 25 March 1840.

2 v. with 2 letters enclosed.

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Jürgensen, Jørgen, 1780-

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Constable at Oatlands, Tasmania. From the description of Letter : Oatlands, Tasmania, to Thomas Anstey. 1829. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225826225 ...

Gunn, Ronald Campbell, 1808-1881

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Botanist, public servant and politician. Gunn arrived in Hobart in 1830. He worked first at Launceston as Assistant Superintendent of Convicts, and later as a police magistrate and secretary to Sir John Franklin. In 1855 he was elected first to the Legislative Council and finally to the House of Assembly, from which he retired in 1860. He became a plant collector for W. J. Hooker of Glasgow. See ADB v.1: 492-3. From the description of Letters and monograph [manuscript]. 1813-1840. (L...

Price, John, 1806-1857.

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Corbett, Norah, 1800-1840.

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Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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William Jackson Hooker was the premier English botanist of his time. His early interest in natural history was refined to botany by the fortuitous discovery of a rare moss. His education included travels through Europe, after which he became regius professor of botany at Glasgow. He published extensively, and founded and edited several journals; his main interests were ferns, mosses, and fungi, and he was a pioneer of economic botany. He was appointed first director of Kew Gardens, which became ...

Gunn, Ronald Campbell, 1808-81

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