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The l'ollo\\ing dates may be used to supplement the foregoijig 

 vivid sketch of a remarkable personality. 



The late Sir Joseph Hooker was born on the 30th June, 1817, 

 at Halesworth, Suffolk, ^\ here his parents were settled for a short 

 time, on property belonging to Dawson Turner, his maternal 

 grandfather. He received his early education at the High School, 

 and in the faculty of Arts and the Medical Faculty in the 

 University of Glasgow. Having taken his degree in 1839, he 

 was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Eoyal Kavy, and as such 

 he accompanied Sir James Ross on his Antarctic Expedition oE 

 1839-1843. After his return he was Assistant to Professor 

 Graham in the University of Edinburgh, and from 1845-1847 

 Botanist to the Geological Survey. His famous travels in India 

 cover the four years from 1847 to 1851. In 1855, he became 

 Assistant Director to his father at Kew, on whose death, in 18G5, 

 he succeeded to the Directorship, which he held until his retire- 

 ment in 1885. It was during this period that he travelled in 

 Palestine ( 1 8G0), in Morocco (1871), and in the United States (1877). 



He was twice married, first to a daughter of Prof. J. S. 

 Henslow in 1851, who died in 1874, and second, the widow of 

 the late Sir AV. Jardine in 1876, who survives him. He died at 

 "The Camp," Sunningdale, 10th December, 1911, and was buried 

 five days later at Kew, beside his father, amidst a large gathering 

 of his friends and colleagues. 



By will lie left £100 free of duty to the Linnean Society, and 

 the reversion of his large collection of medals, which are now 

 shown on loan by Lady Hooker in the rooms of the Society. 



[0. S. & B. D. J.] 



Geouge Maw was born in London on December lOtb, 1832. 

 His father was John Hornby Maw, then partner of a firm of 

 surgical instrument makers in London. George received his early 

 education at home, mainly at Hastings, where his father had 

 removed in 1839. At the age of 16 or 17 he went to the Agri- 

 cultural College at Cirencester with the idea of becoming a farmer. 

 Although he was very successful there, gaining five certificates of 

 honour and a certificate of merit, he gave up the agricultural 

 career and joined his younger brother, Arthur, in establishing in 

 1850 a factory of encaustic tiles at Worcester, which two years 

 later was removed to Benthall, Broseley, Shropshire. His father 

 had been a man of much knowledge and culture and especially 

 artistic gifts, and so was his son George. 



His reputation as a chemist was considerable. As geologist he 

 was a fertile and many-sided writer and successful worker. 

 Among many papers his account of the structure of the Great 

 Atlas, with his demonstration of the former extension of glaciers 

 in that chain of mountains down to 5800 feet, and his treatise on 

 the disposition of iron in variegated strata may be mentioned 

 especially. ^Nevertheless, geologists seem to be inclined to count 



