Talbot Correspondence Project: HOOKER William Jackson to TALBOT William Henry Fox

Glasgow.
Dec. 18. 1835

My dear Sir

As I think I may be allowed to write again under cover to Mr Strangways ^<1> I do so, though it is only for the sake of telling you that I have made out one of your plants, which, when I had the pleasure of last writing to you, I thought new. It is your n. 4, ^<2> �Caucalis� from the Ionian islands, & is Orlaya grandiflora, an old Caucalis, but now formed into a new Genus in Decandolle ^<3>, which I had not thought of looking into.

I am glad to find, by the Unio Itineraria announcement, ^<4> that they have received a large collection from Mount Sinai. It is these hardy & industrious Germans, who will, if any can, penetrate into Africa, & if they can once reach the mountains a glorious harvest indeed may be expected.

I hope the specimens of Hymenophyllum ^<5> were satisfactory to you. The two species are quite distinct.

Very faithfully Yours
W. J. Hooker

London December twenty one 1835 W Strangways
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795�1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.

2. See Doc. No: 03179.

3. Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, probably in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis � (Paris: Treuttel et W�rtz, 1824�1873).

4. WHFT also received a copy. [See Doc. No: 03036].

5. See Doc. No: 03179.