HOOKER’S MEMORIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 9 
New-Zealand-born or who for many years had made that land 
their home. To many of these men he was a friend, a guide, 
a counsellor. There is, indeed, no worker of real moment in the 
later botanical investigation of New Zealand but is deeply indebted 
to Hooker’s influence and assistance, generously given. 
The effigy of Hooker shown in this book (fig. 6) is a photograph 
of his memorial in Westminster Abbey, regarding which Leonard 
Huxley writes as follows :— 
“Kew has his personal memory, but Westminster Abbey en- 
shrines another memorial for the nation. . . . It is of marble, 
a profile medallion in high relief, slightly over life-size 
a presentment of him in old age, at once strongly conceived and 
delicately executed ; in form and expression admirably lifelike, save 
in the small point that the exigencies of sculpture demand a greater 
fullness of beard than he habitually wore. It is placed in the north 
aisle of the nave, where the Abbey honours modern science. Here 
is the Darwm memorial, erected some thirty years before; then 
a group of men famous beyond their own generation; last the 
memorial of Hooker himself. But though this group includes other 
contemporaries and friends of his, the understanding eye overleaps 
them, and sees closest in commemoration, as closest in affection, 
those lifelong fellow-workers.”’ 
The work of David Lyall must not be omitted. In 1847-49, when 
surgeon to the survey ship “ Acheron,” he made large collections 
on the New Zealand coast, paying especial attention to the lower 
plants. It is a remarkable fact that a plant originally discovered 
by him, and extremely plentiful on the shores of Foveaux Strait, 
Huphrasia repens, is very poorly represented in herbaria. The genus 
Lyallia, of Kerguelen Land, was founded in his honour; but to New 
Zealand botany his name is better known through the magnificent 
buttercup Ranunculus Lyalli. . 
Between the publication of the ‘‘ Flora Novae-Zelandiae ” and the 
“ Handbook of the New Zealand Flora”? many important botanical 
explorations were undertaken in New Zealand, and the alpine flora 
of the South Island stood especially revealed in all its richness. 
This result was brought about in large measure by the labours of 
Dr. Andrew Sinclair, R.N., Mr. J. C. Bidwill, Sir David Monro, 
Mr. W. T. L. Travers, Sir Julius von Haast, Sir James Hector, 
and Mr. John Buchanan. Other collectors and botanists also did 
