Additional testimonials in favour of George Dickie, A.M., M.D.

Date:
[1846?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Additional testimonials in favour of George Dickie, A.M., M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / From Sir W. J. Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Royal Gardbns, Kew, Jan. 28; 1846. My Dear Sir,—Although I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with you, I am not ignorant of your merits as a scientific, physiological, and practical Botanist, nor Of your usefulness as a teacher of Botany. It will be a great pleasure to me to learn that you shall have been appointed to a Chair of Botany in one of the new Colleges in Ireland, for the duties of which I consider you to be fully qualified. >s- , Yours, MY DEAR SIR, r f Very faithfully, W. J. HOOKER. From Dr. J. D. Hooker, Botanist to the late Antarctic Ex¬ pedition, and Author of Botany of the Antarctic Voyage. West Park, Kew., Jan. 30, 1846. My Dear Sir,—In common with all your friends, I am exceedingly happy to hear that you are about to offer your- self as a candidate for one of the Botanical Professorships to be established in Ireland, My personal intercourse with you,