Geology.- Hooker (Joseph Dalton) 2 Autograph Letters signed, 1884; and c. 30 other letters from Geologists (c. 30 pieces).

 

Geology.- Hooker (Sir Joseph Dalton, botanist, 1817-1911) 2 Autograph Letters signed to Clement Reid, 6pp., 8vo, Kew Gardens, 7th May 1884 & 24th May 1887, thanking him for his paper, Dust & Soil, "which has interested me very much as a sketch... . The catchment area of a wood for the retention of dust is to be measured by the leaf surface...", and thanking him for the "very curious seeds & fruits from the Cromer beds", folds; and a small quantity of other letters from Geologists etc., including: Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), geologist and historian; James Geikie (1839-1915), geologist; John Christopher Atkinson (1814-1900), author and antiquary; Sir Andrew Ramsay Crombie (1814-1891), geologist; Robert Strutt, fourth Baron Rayleigh (1875-1947), experimental physicist; Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (1847-1936), Russian and Soviet geologist and mineralogist; Baron O. van Ertborn and with note on content by Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1810-1897), diarist and artist; Carl Rudolf Florin (1894-1965), Swedish botanist, folds (1 letter torn in two), v.s., v.d. (c. 30 pieces).