219Hooker’s daughter Maria Elizabeth (known as Minnie) was six years old when she died in 1863.
220John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, who was found guilty of “erroneous teaching” and deposed in 1863. Hooker and Charles Darwin had helped pay legal fees in support of Bishop Colenso’s right to freedom of expression, but Hooker wrote to Darwin on April 1865, after dining with Bishop Colenso, “… I must confess I cannot go along with Colenso – his incessant prating about his own ‘affair’ is quite wearisome: he really is in some respects a very weak man.”
230 “Your white bum.” Colenso had earlier written to WJ Hooker (3 August 1846), “Allow me, also, to request, that you will be pleased to turn to Cunn’s. Ms., for the specific name of his N.Z. Persoonia which cannot (must not) be “Tora” (a most obscene word); Toru is the Native name of the Tree, and Cunningham, who had all the names either from, or corrected by, the Missionaries, – must have written it Toru. If you find it to be as I suppose, you can easily alter it; and if not, do try to change its nom. sp., for any person, however respectable, using such a word to a Native (in enquiring after the Tree), would infallibly insure to himself anything but a good reputation.”
231Matagouri, a thorny bush: tumatakuru also means to show consternation, to be apprehensive.
234Kew Plant Determination Lists (PDL) XXVIII: p. 57ff; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 35: E683. In a different hand: “Fungi taken out by Mr Berkely, Sept 26, 1866.”
241Celebrated cabinetmaker Anton Seuffert made Hooker’s secretaire from kauri, and veneered it with other native woods, including burr totara, rewarewa, puriri, and kohekohe. The marquetry shows a moa, a kiwi, and marine mammals, with a globe centred on New Zealand. Seuffert made nine of these Louis XV escritoires (http://www.seuffert.co.nz/).
260Kew Directors’ Correspondence CLXXIV p243 has a list of identifications of the two Cordylinesand some of these ferns, possibly in Baker’s hand, headed “New Zealand. Colenso. rec’d 9/83”.These identifications are given in brackets in 8pt above.Colenso referred critically to Baker’s views in his letters of 24 February 1884 et seq.
280An anodyne was a medicine that relieved pain (the word is nowadays used for anything that calms, comforts, or soothes disturbed feelings). Compound Ipecacuanha powder (an emetic), compound extract of Colocynth (a strong laxative), Sapo Cast (a homeopathic “moderator”) together make up what must have been a rather unpleasant placebo..
281Time will tell.
282Kew Plant Determination Lists (PDL) XIV: p173ff; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 35: E156 . Following this list at E162 are four pages of notes and identifications of these plants, in Hooker’s writing, headed “From Rev. Wm. Colenso Decr. 1885”, and identifications of others, presumably by Baker, headed “New Zealand Revd. W Colenso 12/85”; these last are shown in brackets in 8pt under Colenso’s names.
283Kew Plant Determination Lists (PDL) XIV: p176ff; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 35: E165. These specimens are all identified in a list that follows Colenso’s list in volume XIV; the list is marked in Hooker’s writing, “Recd. ex Mr Cooke 7. vi. 66; Copy to Mr Colenso 10. vi. 66.” The author signs “WP” but I can make no further identification; I have given these plant identifications in 8pt in brackets below each Colenso entry.
289Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p128; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E453. There is a list by Baker identifying several of Colenso’s new ferns with species already described.
294(in another hand) “determined by Stephani. list 20.12.90”.
295Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p130; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E459.
296Woe is me!
297The differences of opinion about Gahnia continue in subsequent letters, and in the Kew volumes is a March 1892 report from CB Clarke to the Director, giving his opinions of Colenso’s new “species”.
298 “Typo” was the magazine edited by Robert Coupland Harding, Colenso’s friend.
299The Assaye left London in February 1890, crossed the Equator on 16 March, and was never heard of again; some of her wreckage washed up on the Chathams.
300Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p133; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E468, repeated at E476.
301Tusculum was an ancient city SE of Rome: the word came to be used for Roman villas, especially Cicero’s villa.
302Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p135; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E471 repeated at E481.
303Cry “Hurrah! Triumph!” (Ovid, the Art of Love).
308Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p137; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E485.
309Peccare = to sin
310At the threshold
311A reference to the archer who, offended by Philip of Macedon, shot an arrow carrying that message into the king’s right eye. Philip plucked the arrow out and sent it back with the message, “If I take the city I will hang the archer.” And so he did. The relevance?
312See also the 14 October 1893 letter and footnote.
314Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p140; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E494.
315 See also the letter of 24 January 1893. The painting was lent to Colenso by Andrew Luff, who had bought it from the artist William Tayler in London. It was probably a watercolour copy of Tayler’s “The botanist in Sikkim”, reproduced in Huxley L. Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI. 2 vols, London, John Murray, 1918. It was offered for sale by Luff’s descendents in Wellington in 1938, but I can find no trace of its present whereabouts.
316Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p141; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E497.
317Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p144; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E497.
326Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p151; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E513.
327The Czech-born Gottfried Lindauer married in Melbourne in 1879, and lived at Woodville after 1889. Trans. N.Z. I. Vol 27 p. 688 (1894) records, “At the close of the meeting, the President, in the name of the Institute, presented to Mr. Colenso a fine portrait in oils of himself, by Herr Lindauer”.
328Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p152; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E516.
329William Leonard Williams, 3rd Bishop of Waiapu 1895-1909.
330Both Hooker and Darwin administered chloroform to their wives during childbirth.
331Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p155; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E519.
332Possibly Augustus Hamilton’s “Notes on a visit to Macquarie Island”, read before the Otago Institute in November 1894 (Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1894; 27: 559).
333Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p156; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E522.
334 “Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra” (Horace): It is always possible to reach a certain point, if not to go beyond.
336There is a report on Colenso’s new species of the sedge Gahnia, written for the Kew Director by CB Clarke on 11 March 1892. Clarke lumped G. multiglumis Col., G. parviflora Col., G. scaberula Col., and 3 other tagnamed specimens, into G. setifolia Hook. f., lumped a further four tagged specimens into G. xanthocarpa Hook. f., and identified G. exigua Col. with G. rigida T. Kirk.
337Probably F Reader.
338Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p158; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E528.
339Tansy and pennyroyal were euphemistically called emmenagogues (“menstrual flow stimulants”), but were used as abortifacients.
340Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p162; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E538.
341Joseph D Hooker (ed), Journal of The Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks, Macmillan, 1896.
342Herbert Spencer’s The principles of sociology, 1874-1875.
343Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p184; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E578; the “papers concerning” Colenso’s accident are missing.
344Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p185; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E579. Seymour Fannin was appointed Dispenser of drugs at the United Societies’ Pharmacy in Napier in 1892 (Colenso to RC Harding 9 November 1892: Mitchell Library). His father was George Thomas Fannin, a beneficiary of Colenso’s will.
345Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p166; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E548.
346I cannot identify this woman, but Colenso referred to her as “Mrs. B” in a letter to RC Harding dated 30 April 1897.
347Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p168; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E552.
348Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p169; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E553.
349The Minister of Lands (Sir John McKenzie) had made slanderous accusations in an “extraordinary aud sensational speech” about Sir Walter Buller’s acquisition of land in the Horowhenua in 1895; Buller steadfastly denied unethical conduct.
350Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
351Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p173; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E563.
352Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p186; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E580.
353Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p175; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E565.
354Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p177; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E567.
355Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p178; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E570.
356Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p180; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E572.
357Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p181; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E574.
358Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p182; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E576.
359Colenso’s masterful letter ended, “Geology is God’s revelation to us of one set of truths, and Genesis of quite another.”
360Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p190; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E586.
361Colenso died on 10 February 1899.
362Kew JDH/2/1/4 Letters to Joseph Hooker, Vol IV: p192; ATL Micro-Ms-Coll-10 Reel 27: E588.
363In the letter to Lady Hyacinth Hooker dated 14 February 1898 he wrote, “I am still very busy. . . naming parcels of plants sent in to me by strangers! which take up more of my time than they are aware of.”
364Letter to JD Hooker of 21 May 1885.
365Olsen M. Petrels nesting in Tutamoe Range, Northland, 1916-1923. Notornis 1987; 34 (3) 205.
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373Olsen M. See footnote 365.
374Hedley C. Henry Suter obituary. Trans. Proc. R. S. N.Z. 1919; 51: ix.
375Waitangi Tribunal. The Te Roroa Report, 1992. www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz/reports/viewchapter.asp?reportID=7df6e15e-2c4d-4dd0-9e60-50a88ffb48a9&chapter=31 accessed 12 Dec 07.
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