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of doing good whenever possible, with a studied avoidance of 
all ostentation, will ever remain as a beautiful memory in the 
hearts of all those whose privilege it was to have known her. 
Botanical Magazine.—The following plants have been figured 
in the six numbers for the months January to June of this year. 
Stanhopea Costaricensis, Reichb. £. (t. 8830) from Costa Rica; 
var. lanceolata, Hook. 8843) from New Zealand; Jris 
Hoogiana, Dykes (t. 8844) from Turkestan ; Venidium macroce- 
Sir J. D. Hooker.*—The Society for Promoting Christian 
Knowledge has published an admirable sketch of the lite of Sir 
J. D. Hooker, by Professor F. O. Bower, which forms a volume 
of its ‘‘ Pioneers of Progress’? (Men of Science) series. In a 
Professor Bower gives his record in chapters, entitled: Birth and 
Education, Foreign Travel, Kew, Authorship, The Species Ques- 
tion, Personal Characteristics, and Hooker’s Position as a Ma 
of Science. At the end is a useful list of the dates of the greater 
events in Sir Joseph’s career, followed by a select list of his por- 
traits and a brief bibliography. The portrait appearing in this 
volume has not, so far as we can ascertain, been published before. 
We have noted a mistake regarding the area of Kew Gardens— 
a mistake so obvious that no reader knowing Kew at all well would 
* Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., &c., by Prof. F. O. Bower, Sc.D., F.R.S., 
—— (S.P.C.K.), 1919, 62 pages and portrait. 1s. in paper wrapper, 
8s. CiOtN. 
