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enormous amount of work. He retained, long after lii^ retire- 

 ment, a keen interest in fungi, but of late years his eyesight failed^ 

 and a few months ago he left his old home at Kentish Town to live 



married da 



H 



ovember 12th. 



An account of Cooke's life and scientific work will he found in 



Ke 



A. D, C. 



Sin Joseph Daltox Hooker. — We learn that a "Wedgwood 



Hall of the American riiilosophical Society at Philadel[)hia, and 

 that it was unveiled by Dr. W. G. Farh>w at the meeting of the 

 society held on Aj^ril 25th last. 



We have also received from Lady Hooker the following letter 

 written from the Ito Botanical Institute, Tokvo, on September 

 19th, 1914: — 



Dear Madam, 



I have the honour of sending you a copy of the latoat 

 number of the ''Gakusei^' (Tlie Student, Vol. v. No. 10, 

 Sept. 1914), in which you will find a short sketch of tlio 

 biography of j^our illu&trious husband — the late Sir Jose])h 

 Dalton Hooker. Sir Joseph has been recently selected by the' 

 contemporaries in Japan as one of the Twenty-Nine Heroes of 



Mod 



That essav is, 



am 



the great botanist hitherto published in Japanese language. 



We 



husband, of which you were so kind as to send me some time 

 ago and a\ ith which mv essay is duly embellished. That por- 



me 



father, the late Baron Keisuke Ito, the founder of modern 

 botany in Japan, who died some years ngo at the age of 

 ninety-nine. 



With l>est wishes of your good health, 



I remain, 



Yours respectfully, 



ToKUTARO Ito. 



liady Hooker » 





The Cam]), 



Sunningdale. 



Mr. Chamberlain and Kew. — The following note by Sir W. 



T. Thiselton-Dyer has been published in the Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 It explains more precisely the occurrence which is described in a 

 note by Mr. Austen Chamberlain published in K, B. 1914, 



p, 298: 



*' Mr. Austen Chamberlain is not quite accurately informed as 

 to the history of the completion of tlio Temperate House at Kew. 

 Mr. Chamberlain wished to see this accomplished, and Kew wanted 

 to extend its cultivation under glass'. The moment seemed 

 favourable and I addressed a memorandum on the 5?ubject in the 



