To W. E. Gladstone [before 16 January 1873]
Summary
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, …
Author
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |