Letter : [Kew, England?], to unknown person, n.p., [ca. 1841?] Aug. 28.

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Letter : [Kew, England?], to unknown person, n.p., [ca. 1841?] Aug. 28.

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Autograph letter signed. Writes that he cannot visit Windsor because his daughter is ill on the Isle of Wight. He also writes of his pleasure at the progress being made on the house at [Kew?] and thanks his correspondent for endeavouring to procure plants and seed from [Gambia?].

1 item (4 p.) ; 17 cm.

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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 ...