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To W. E. Gladstone   [before 16 January 1873]

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Encourages the government to keep the herbarium and library of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ewart Gladstone
Date:  [before 16 Jan 1873]
Classmark:  Fourth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science 1874 [C.884] XXII.1 (pp. 31–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9206F

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 8 November 1872  and n.  3. Aiton 1810–13 . In writing Hortus Kewensis , William Townsend Aiton had relied on his own and Joseph Banks’s herbaria; there was no official herbarium at Kew when William Jackson Hooker became director in 1841 (see R.  Desmond 1995 , pp.  194–5). On the museums, which opened in 1848 and 1857, …
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