172 DOWN. [ch. viii. 



kindness from one that is loved, that the very same fact, 

 told as you told it, made me glow with pleasure till my very 

 heart throbbed. Believe me, I shall not soon forget the 

 pleasure of your letter. Such hearty, affectionate sympathy 

 is worth more than all the medals that ever were or will be 

 coined. Again, my dear Hooker, I thank you. I hope 

 Lindley * will never hear that he was a competitor against 

 me ; for really it is almost ridiculous (of course you would 

 never repeat that I said this, for it would be thought by 

 others, though not, I believe by you, to be affectation) his 

 not having the medal long before me ; I must feel sure that 

 you did quite right to propose him ; and what a good, dear, 

 kind fellow you are, nevertheless, to rejoice in this honour 

 being bestowed on me. 



What pleasure I have felt on the occasion, I owe almost 

 entirely to you.f 



Farewell, my dear Hooker, yours affectionately. 



The following series of extracts, must, for want of space, 

 serve as a sketch of his feeling with regard to his seven 

 years' work at Barnacles J : 



September 1849. " It makes me groan to think that 

 probably I shall never again have the exquisite pleasure of 

 making out some new district, of evolving geological light 



* John Lindley (b. 1799, d. 1865) was the son of a nurseryman near Nor- 

 wich, through whose failure in business he was thrown at the age of twenty 

 on his own resources. He was befriended by Sir W. Hooker, aud employed 

 as assistant librarian by Sir J. Banks. He seems to have had enormous ca- 

 pacity for work, and is said to have translated Richard's Analyse du Fruit at 

 one sitting of two days and three nights. He became Assistant- Secretary to 

 the Horticultural Society, and in 1829 was appointed Professor of Botany at 

 University College, a post which he held for upwards of thirty years. His 

 writings are numerous ; the best known being perhaps his Vegetable King- 

 dom, published in 1846. 



t Shortly afterwards he received a fresh mark of esteem from his warm- 

 hearted friend: "Hooker's book (Himalayan Journal} is out, and most 

 beautifully got up. He has honoured me beyond measure by dedicating it 

 to me ! " 



X In 1860 he wrote to Lyell, " Is not Krohn a good fellow ? I have Ions: 

 meant to write to him. He has been working at Cirripedes, and has detected 

 two or three gigantic blunders, about which, I thank Heaven, I spoke rather 

 doubtfully. Such difficult dissection that even Huxley failed. It is chiefly 

 the interpretation which I put on parts that is so wrong, and not the parts 

 which I describe. But they were gigantic blunders, and why I say all this 

 is because Krohn, instead of crowing at all, pointed out my errors with the ut- 

 most gentleness and pleasantness." 



There are two papers by Aug. Krohn, one on the Cement Glands, and the 

 other on the development of Cirripedes, Weigmann's Archiv, xxv. and xxvi. 

 See Autobiography, p. 39, where my father remarks, " I blundered dreadfully 

 about the cement glands." 



