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commemorate occasions of signal importance. Only the distance to 
be traversed, combined with the weight of his 90 years, prevented 
him from being present at Upsala in 1907 to do honour to the 
memory of Linnaeus. In 1908 he not only attended the celebration 
by the Linnean Society of the fiftieth anniversary of its publication 
of the joint contribution by Darwin and Wallace, but addressed 
the delegates and Fellows present in a speech which recounted 
the part he had been able to take 50 years before. Again, in 1909 
he attended—and was the central figure of the occasion—the 
celebration by the University of Cambridge of the centenary of the 
irth of Darwin. 
he was laid to rest on Friday, December 15. The funeral sed 
place from the house so long occupied by his father and himself. 
A the mourners were the following members of Sir Joseph’s 
family, “feprecctituevee of societies and institutions, and others :— 
Lady Hooker, Miss Hooker, Mr. W. H. Hooker, Mr. C. P., Mrs., 
and Mr. E. Hooker, Mr. R. H. Hooker, Mr. R.S. Hooker, Sir W. T. 
Thiselton- yet Miss Thiselton-Dyer, Mr. G. a Thiselton-Dyer, 
Mrs. Whitfield, Mrs. Calverley Bewicke, Mr. R. Woodward, Mr. 
R. Woodward, junr., Rev. Canon Barker, Mr. G. Barker, Mr. L. 
Barnard, Mrs. Crowder, Mr. M. Malleson, Mr. J. Murray, Miss 
3 Palgrave, Mrs. Paul Waterhouse, Capt. A. L. Henslow, 
Miss Symonds, Mr. R. Symonds, Miss M. Smith, Sir Arthur 
and Lady Riicker, Mr. T. Matkalyate Mr 1 A. Rising, Dr. Trail, 
Rev. A. G. Musgrave, Mr. M. Pitkin; the pee from The Camp, 
Sunningdale ; Raval Society : Sir A. G e (President), J 
J. Larmor and Sir J. R. Bradford ar tacics), Lt.-Col. A. V 
Alcock (Council), and Prof. Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh ; Society of An . 
quaries: Dr. C. H. Re “ President) einasat Society : 
H. Scott (President), Dr. B. D. 5 a and Dr. Q. Stapf 
(Secretaries) a oe Society : Prof. W. W. Watts (President) 
and Pro Judd (Past-President) ; Royal Geographical 
Sonat - re W. E. Darwin and Lt.-Col. H. H: Godwin-Austen ; 
British Seience Guild : Sir Norman and Lady Lockyer ; Entomo- 
logical Society : Prof. R. Meldola; British Medical Association : 
. A. Peake; Royal Horticultural Society : Sir D. Morris ; 
Pharmaceutical Society: Mr. E. H. Holmes ; Raives sity of Glas- 
gow: Prof. F. O. Bower; Natural History Museum: Mr. E. G. 
Baker ; West Indies: Mr. W. Fawcett ; Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Kew: The Director and Assistant Director, with all the members 
of the permanent staff, and with detachments representing the 
constabulary and the labour departments ; Miss Baker, Mr. A. E. 
PE rs. Bliss, Prof. G. S. Boulger, Mr. J. Britten, Mr. C. H. 
Curtis, Prof. Sir G. H. Darwin, Hon. Mrs. H. Darwin, Dr. F. 
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