From J. D. Hooker [8 May 1863]1
Kew
Friday.
Dear Darwin
Mr Salwyn who has twice been to Guatemala & just returned—says he is game to go to Gallapagos if he had sufficient encouragement—(from scientific men in a scientific way)— he is a gentlemanly sort of fellow, but I believe sells his birds &c & has travelled as naturalist wholly.2 I have offered to take all his plants, divide them into sets for him to sell for his own profit—& purchase the first set myself & describe them too.— A word of encouragement from you dwelling mainly on the scientific interest of the investigation might clinch it.— I told him I would write to you about him.
—Salwyn Esqr.
11. Hanover Terrace
Regents Park.
He can probably answer any questions about Guatemala annuals.— Why should he not go on to Sandwich Isds?
J D Hooker
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Summary
JDH encourages a Mr Salwyn [Osbert Salvin] to collect in Galapagos; would like CD to add his encouragement.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4154
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 101: 134
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4154,” accessed on 29 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4154.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
