276 THE JOUKNAL OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



The two stout volumes from which this brief account is taken, are 

 interesting throughout, and seem to make one really acquainted with a 

 rare and delightful personality. One realizes his passion for plants from 

 first to last, an inheritance from both his father and his mother's father, 

 Dawson Turner ; and his development can be traced, from the reserved 

 puritanical youth who shuns society and refrains from collecting plants on 

 Sundays, to the genial host at Kew and the correspondent of Darwin, full of 

 fun and broad modern views. A chapter by Prof. Bower summarizes 

 admirably Sir Joseph Hooker's position as botanist. In two appendices 

 are given a complete list of his writings, and the long roll of honours and 

 appointments conferred upon him. The illustrations are all well chosen, 

 and include six portraits of the botanist at different periods, and two 

 pictures of his camp life, one in Sikkim, with his Lepcha collectors and 

 Gurkha guard, and one in the Rockies with Asa Gray and other American 

 friends. A welcome feature of the book is a brief biographical notice in a 

 footnote of each notable person mentioned in the text, and there is a good 

 index. 



M. A. Evershed. 



Printed and Published for the Proprietor by J. B. BUTTRlCKat the Methodist 

 Publishing House, Mount Road, Madras. 



