SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER — PRAIN. 671 



to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the 

 great Linnreus. 



Among his academic distinctions were the honorary degree of 

 D. C. L., conferred upon him by the University of Oxford, and that 

 of LL. D. from the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin, and 

 his own alma mater, Glasgow. 



His foreign distinctions have included membership of the Royal 

 Swedish Order of the Polar Star and the Royal Prussian Order "Pour 

 le Merite." By his own Government he was made a C. B. in 1869, 

 the year following his presidentship of the British Association; he 

 was made a K. C. S. I. in 1877, toward the close of his presidentship 

 of the Royal Society. He was in 1897 promoted to the grade of 

 G. C. S. I., when, in his eightieth year, the Flora of British India was 

 completed; and in 1907, on his ninetieth birthday, he received the 

 Order of Merit. 



Hale and robust in his venerable old age, the veteran Hooker not 

 only attended the Darwin- Wall ace celebration organized by the Lin- 

 nean Society in 1908, addressing the delegates and fellows present in 

 a speech which recounted the part played by himself half a century 

 earlier; he also attended the celebration at Cambridge in 1909 which 

 commemorated the centenary of the birth of his friend Darwin. At 

 work until within a few weeks of his death, and keenly interested in 

 current topics to the last, Hooker passed peacefully away in his 

 sleep, at his residence, The Camp, near Sunningdale, at midnight on 

 Sunday, December 10. As was befitting, an invitation was offered 

 to receive his remains in Westminster Abbey. Hooker had, how- 

 ever, expressed his wish that they should rest in the tomb in which 

 his illustrious father's body was laid. This wish was fulfilled, and 

 on Friday, December 15, he was buried in the family grave in the 

 old churchyard of Kew. The cortege followed the coffin to the church, 

 as was meet, from the house so long occupied by, and so full of memo- 

 ries connected with, his father and himself. At Kew, where so much 

 of what he accomplished was done, he sleeps with his people, and 

 Kew with its old churchyard is now more sacred even than it was 

 to botanical pilgrims. 



