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■r Majesty's 
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5d to p 
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rest of 
: Sir Wi 
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Hooker's 
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appears ro 
a Honkers 
main inciv -; and bequests. This alone is 
sufficient evidence of the appreciation of the collection by the 
intelligent public, or at any rate by the Inimical world. It 
arranged 
' rlie exhibited collection was carefully re 
4 in this, to the relative eminence of the 
' Those, however, of men who had had i 
' relations with the establishment were, as 
" The crayon portraits executed for 
' Sir Daniel' MacNee in his youth are 
ry remarkable 
f'Sir William Hooker, laid the foundation 
' fact a labour of love, and I am per>uad< 1 
' found, not merely useful as a guide, but ■< trustworthy manual 
' of botanical biographies. 
" It has had the further advantage of being read in proof by 
Mr. Daydon Jackson, the General Secretary of the Linnean 
Society, wh .hose know- 
ledge of the historx of or nisis - , outlier unequalled. 
