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rate naval surveyor, he visited it in two successive years, 

 and there is the Terror's log to confirm it and my sketches 

 showing the East base of Mt. Terror at the junction with the 

 Barrier clothed with white, where now black cliffs appear. 



I hope that you can report a good attendance at the 

 Exhibition. 



Though he kept at work till but a little before the end, 

 his physical strength began to fail in August. Yet his mental 

 powers remained clear and strong ; till the last he was keenly 

 interested in current topics and the latest contributions to 

 natural science. On December 10 he passed away in his 

 sleep, peacefully and without pain. The last honour of burial 

 in the Abbey was offered by the Dean of Westminster, where 

 his ashes would lie beside those of Lyell and Darwin, in death 

 not divided from the beloved friend and inspirer, whom in 

 turn he had strengthened by his affection and his knowledge. 

 But Hooker's own wish had been to be laid to rest in the 

 family grave at Kew, beside his father and close to the life- 

 work of them both, which will ever be linked with their names. 

 Here, in the churchyard at Kew Green, he was buried on 

 December 17. In the church is a tablet to his memory, bearing 

 his portrait medallion from a model by Mr. Frank Bowcher, 

 reproduced in Wedgwood ware, and the inscription : 



1817-1911 



JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, 

 O.M., G.C.S.I., C.B., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D. 



ASSOCIE ETRANGER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, KNIGHT OF THE 



PRUSSIAN ORDER ' POUR LE MERITE,' SOMETIME PRESIDENT 



OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



FOR XX YEARS DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL 

 BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 



BORN AT HALESWORTH, SOra JUNE, 1817. 

 DIED AT WINDLESHAM, lOra DEC., 1911. 



' THE WORKS OF THE LORD ARE GREAT, SOUGHT OUT OF ALL THEM 

 THAT HAVE PLEASURE THEREIN.' 



