Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Vol. 1: Based on Materials Collected and Arranged by Lady Hooker There seems to be, if I may be allowed to say so, a touch of personal appropriateness in the fact that the writing of Sir Joseph Hookers Life has fallen to the son of his close friend. The work has thus been doubly a labour of love and remembrance, and by good fortune it traverses a biographical field some part of which hag already been worked over by me. If, however, I cannot claim to be a professed student of botany, something of my defect has been remedied by the kindness of others. The proofs have been most carefully read through by Sir David Prain, the present Director of Kew, and Miss Matilda Smith, Kew´s botanical artist, who moreover has verified many references at Kew and supplied material for biographical notes not easily accessible elsewhere. Sir Joseph Hooker, for all that he accused himself on occasion of being a bad correspondent, was in reality an indefatigable letter writer. Indeed, he declares somewhere that the busier he was, the longer and fuller his letters were likely to be - and he was always busy. Apart from a vast official correspondence and regular weekly letters to various members of his family, there are extant over 700 sheets copied from his letters to Charles Darwin, whose own share of the correspondence, typed out, fills more than 800 pages. No other single correspondence compares with this; but it is easily balanced by the total of letters to the next half dozen or so among his multitudinous correspondents, to name only Bentham and Harvey, Anderson and La Touche, Mr. Duthie and my father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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