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Hooker’s work, The fact that of 'Hooker’s most intimate friends 
and contemporaries Gray was the one who, by stress of circumstance 
had been, in spite of his versatile talents and varied interests, 
compelled in the same manner to devote most of his attention Be 
floristic work renders this appreciation doubly valuable. Such 
it is, we can only say that what was put on record then applies 
equally to what has happened since. In this article, written when 
ooker was in his sixtieth year, Gray expressed the hope that he 
might be writing of one who was only in mid-career, a hope that 
has almost been fulfilled. Nor of Hooker’s activity as an adminis- 
trator need more be said than what Gray has said ; it was exercised 
“in such wise as to win, along with national applause, the gratitude 
of pe scientific world.” 
promotion or Pein of natural Moves Many of these 
societies bestowed on Hooker still further distinctions. ‘The Royal 
Society submitted his name for the award of a Royal medal in 1854, 
and awarded him the Copley medal—the highest honour the Society 
can bestow—in 1887 and the Darwin medal in 1892. The 
Linnean Society awarded him the Linnean medal in 1888, and 
presented to him, in 1897, a medal struck to commemorate his own 
eightieth birthday and, in 1908, one of the medals struck to com- 
memorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the joint 
communication by Darwin and Wallace on natural selection, 
Darwin’s share in which was so largely the result of Hooker’s 
action. The Society of Arts awarded him their Albert medal in 
1883, the Geographical Society their Founder’s medal in 1884, and 
the Manchester Philosophical Society a medal in 1898. F inally, i in 
1907, the Royal Swedish Academy, under circumstances already 
described in this work (K.B. 1907, p. 259), conferred upon him 
what he has himself termed the crowning honour of his long life— 
the unique medal struck to commemorate the two-hundredth anni- 
versary of the birth of Linnaeus. The cages of Oxford 
conferred on him the piewintd degree of D.C.L.; he received the 
honorary degree of LL.D. m the Universities of Camb bridge, 
Edinburgh, Dublin and Blow. In 1869, after he was iene 
of the British Association at Norwich, ha was made a C.B.,; 
1877, when about to vacate the Presidentship of the Boyal Sica. 
he was created a K.C.S.I..; in 1897, when the * Flora of Britis 
India’ was completed, he was made a G.C.S.I.; in 1907, on his 
ninetieth birthday, he received the Order of Merit. His foreign 
Even in his old age Hooker felt 1 ie duty to respond 
to invitations to take part in public ceremonies designed to 
