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tensive botanical tours through the wildest parts of Seotland, 
the Hebrides, and the Orkneys, which his lithe and athletic 
frame and great activity fitted him keenly to enjoy. Coming 
up to London, he made the acquaintance of Sir Joseph Banks 
and of the botanists he had drawn around him, Dryander, So- 
lander, and Robert Brown. 
In 1809 he went to Iceland, to senile that then little- 
known island. The exploration was most successful ; but the 
ship in which he embarked, with all his collections, notes, and 
drawings, was fired and destroyed, and everything was lost, 
he himself narrowly escaping with his life. Hooker’s earliest 
work, the “Journal of a Tour in Iceland,” in two octavo vol- 
umes, published at Yarmouth in 1811, and republished at 
London two years afterwards, gives an interesting account of 
his explorations and adventures, along with the history of a 
singular attempt at the time to revolutionize the island, — with 
which the disaster to the vessel he returned in was in some way 
connected, we forget how. Not disheartened by these losses, he 
now turned from a polar to an equatorial region, and made 
extensive preparations for going to Ceylon, with Sir Robert 
Brownrigg, then appointed governor. But the disturbances 
which broke out in that island, more serious than those which 
attended the close of his Iceland tour, again frustrated his 
endeavors. 
The strong disposition for travel and distant exploration, 
frustrated in his own case, came to fruit abundantly in the 
next generation, in the world-wide explorations of his son. 
He himself made no more distant journey than to Switzer- 
land, Italy, and France, in 1814, becoming personally ac- 
quainted with the principal botanists of the day, and laying 
the foundation of his wide correspondence and great botanical 
collections. In 1815 he married the eldest daughter of the 
late Dawson Turner, of Yarmouth, and established his resi- 
dence at Halesworth, in Suffolk. The next year, in 1816, 
besides publishing some of the Musci and Hepaticw of Hum- 
boldt and Bonpland’s collection, he brought to completion his 
first great botanical work, “* The British Jungermanniz,” with 
colored figures of each species, and microscopical analyses, in 
