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endeavour to found a scientific society in Tasmania, which 

 subsequently blossomed into the Tasmanian Journal of 

 Natural Science, now I think the Royal Society of Tasmania. 

 Sir John Franklin was Governor of Tasmania at the time, 

 and my only audience was the Governor and his Lady, the 

 private Secretary, Captain Boss, and the Surgeon of the 

 Erebus. 



It is good news that you will undertake the study and 

 arrangement of the fossil woods in the B.M. When next I 

 can get to London I shall visit the Geological Gallery and 

 hope to make your acquaintance. 



Believe me, Yours faithfully, 



Jos. D. HOOKER. 



A much appreciated gift was one from Charles Eliot Norton, 

 President of Harvard, in the shape of a little book he had 

 written on ' The Poet Gray as a Naturalist, with Selections 

 from his Notes on the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus and 

 facsimiles of some of his drawings.' This was brought over 

 by W. E. Darwin on his return from a visit to the States. 



To W. E. Darwin. 



December 3, 1904. 



Many thanks for bringing me C. Norton's present ; I 

 am gratified exceedingly by his recollection of me. His 

 Memoir of Gray is charming. How beautifully he writes, 

 and how accurately he sets forth the poet's power as a 

 Naturalist. I wish that your father could have seen the 

 little book. How like and unlike Gray was to the Selborne 

 Naturalist. 



To Mrs. Lyell he adds : 



It is a revelation to me. Gray seems to have devoted his 

 life to Natural History, all for himself, for he had not even a 

 correspondent ! Shall I send it to you ? 



This year, 1904, there was an accession to the household 

 of the young life in which Hooker so much delighted. Of the 

 sons of his second marriage, one was in the Army, had served 

 in the Boer War, and was now in an Indian regiment ; the 

 other had started his schooldays in 1899, and was to enter 



