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at Dublin, 176, Brit. Mus., ib., 

 Sydney, 177, and Edinburgh, 177 ; 

 visit to continental botanists, 

 178-89 ; his father's Herbarium 

 cannot be properly kept up on 

 private means, 182 ; aided by his 

 father's name, 183 ; is not sanguine, 

 but warms to his work, 189 ; Edin- 

 burgh, 191-205; payment and 

 a labour of love, 191 sq., 201 ; 

 dislike to lecturing, 193-6, over- 

 come, 199, 201, 211 ; Graham's 

 hopeless syllabus, 196, 197, 199; 

 opposite views, 200 ; election 

 politics, 204 sq. ; Glasgow as 

 alternative, 205-6; works at or- 

 ganic chemistry, i. 199, 202; 

 generosity, 206 ; appointed Ben- 

 tham's executor, 206 ; his father's 

 belief in his powers, 206; the 

 Geological Survey, 207-214; rooms 

 in town, 210 ; coal plants and 

 fossil botany, 210, 211, 212 sq., 

 Essays on, 214 ; proposed British 

 Herbarium showing distribution, 

 212, 213 ; resents empty patron- 

 age, 215 ; succession at Kew 

 refused, 215 ; seeks new travel, 

 ib. sq., rather than publish Ant- 

 arctic Journals, 216; Fl. Ant., 

 labour and cost of, 217, unharmed 

 by Indian trip, ib. ; Indian ex- 

 pedition, planned, 217 sq. ; the 

 desired link with Kew, 217, 219 ; 

 no self -pushing, 220 ; engagement, 

 219 ; ' no flowers,' ib. sq. ; elected 

 F.R.S., 221 ; successes due to his 

 father, 221 ; earliest friendship with 

 Darwin, 222 



India, voyage to, 223 sq. ; impres- 

 sions of Portugal and its explorers, 

 223 sq. ; Malta, 224 ; steamships, 

 225; Alexandria, 225; Cairo, 226- 

 9; a Glasgow parallel, 228; its 

 plant life, 226 sq., and fossil forest, 

 227; Mehemet Ali, 228 ; Overland 

 Route, 229 sq. ; collections lost, 

 231; Suez, 231; Aden, ib. ; friend- 

 ship with Lord Dalhousie, 218, 225 

 sq., 228, 232, Sir L. Peel, 233 sq. ; 

 Calcutta Garden, 234-6; to the 

 Kymore Hills, 237-45 ; collections, 

 237-8, for Kew Museum, 241 sq. ; 

 coal fossils, 239 sq. ; Parasnath, 

 240 ; Indian pests, 241 ; reports to 

 Lord Dalhousie, 242 ; travel stories, 



242 ; zoology and botany for 

 Darwin, 245 



To Darjiling, Hindu bearers, 247, 

 life at, 247-55, 260 sq.; excursions 

 from Darjiling, 256 sq. ; book on 

 Indian travels not contemplated, 

 255; Rhododendron Book, 255; 

 political difficulties, 251 sq., 264- 

 72; dealings with his men, 258, 

 271 TO., 291; variety of scientific 

 interests, 261, 262 sq., including 

 surveying, ib., 275; his map, 275, 

 value to Tibet Mission of 1903, 

 275 and note, ii. 457 



First expedition, cost, i. 274, rate 

 of travel, 275, route, 276 ; with 

 Campbell, 276 sq., interviews Rajah, 

 277, impressions, 281-4, familiar 

 plants, ib., methods and accuracy, 

 282^1 ; to the Terai, 286 ; picture 

 by Tayler, 286 q. 



Second expedition, 289-319 ; un- 

 willing to compromise the people, 

 294 ; obstruction neatly overcome, 

 292 sq., 296, 297 sq. ; wins over 

 opponents, 298, 303, with whom 

 Campbell quarrels, 309; Tibet 

 and the snowline, 300, 301 ; 

 passes to the east, 301-2, 312 ; 

 ascends over 19,000 ft., 303, 304; 

 first visit to Donkiah pass, 303 sq. ; 

 with Campbell makes a ' round 

 tour ' through Tibet, 306, 309 sq. ; 

 bluffing the guards, 310 ; cap- 

 tivity, 312-19, alarm as to, 316, 

 317, 323 ; the Lamas and people 

 friendly, 291, 312, 315, 317, 322; 

 the Dewan, his plots and character, 

 314, 316, old score, 290 ; release 

 on Christmas Eve, 319 ; good 

 health, 323 ; military service, 

 320 sqq. , 322 n. ; action approved, 

 324; wonders of Himalayas and 

 Tibet, 325 ; maps of Sikkim, 326 

 sq., and Khasia Mts., 327 



Thomson, a close friend, 328, 

 already plans Fl. Indica with, ib. ; 

 Expedition, not to Nepaul or 

 Bhotan, 329, but to Khasia Hills, 

 329, 332-9 ; advantages of, 330 ; 

 Calcutta Society and character 

 sketches, 330 sq. ; Dacca, 333, 

 334 ; vast collections made, 335-9 ; 

 purely scientific aim, 337 ; Govt. 

 aid needed for shaping material 

 into Indian Flora, 339-42, given 



