INDEX 



543 



with restrictions, 348-50 ; a bonus 

 from the Admiralty, 348 



Marriage, character of his wife, 

 350 ; difficulties of a waiting policy : 

 is tempted to abandon Kew, 351 ; 

 appointed Assistant Director, 352 ; 

 takes many of his father's re- 

 sponsibilities, 362 ; relation to 

 Darwin as shown by Flora of 

 Tasmania, 353 sq. work on Fl. 

 Indioa, with Thomson, 354-362; 

 arranges Indian material in Her- 

 barium, 361 sq. ; The Him. Journal 

 published, 363, a pole-star in his 

 life, ib.; love of practical philosophy, 

 364 and note; the Great Exhibi- 

 tion of 1851, 364 sq. ; would like 

 any work offered except drink and 

 Wordsworth, 365 ; his wide know- 

 ledge shakes idea of fixed species, 

 366-8 ; science organisation and 

 teaching needed, 368 ; value of 

 publishing preliminary work, 371- 

 4 ; interchange of Systematic 

 Botany and Herbarium work, 373 ; 

 takes stock of ideas in Introduc- 

 tory Essays, 374 ; unselfish love of 

 science, six examples of, 376 ; 

 lecturing proposed at Kew and 

 Royal Institution, 376-7; Brit. 

 Mus. collections and Kew, 378-82 ; 

 the Science and Art Dept., 379 

 and note ; botany at Oxford, 382 

 sq., and Cambridge, 384 ; influence 

 as Examiner, Apoth. Co. and 

 E.I.C., 385-8; testing reasoning 

 faculty, 386, and practical know- 

 ledge, 390, 399 ; on clumsy ex- 

 pressions, 388 ; British flora, should 

 set people on the right way to 

 learn for themselves, 390 ; accurate 

 terminology, 393, 397 ; 398 ; to be 

 exactly known, 396, 400, cp. 479 ; 

 misuse of English names in botany, 

 394, 395 n., 479 ; oral and written 

 style, 395-7 ; observation as 

 against cramming, 399 ; scheme of 

 lecturing, 400 sq. ; old style sys- 

 tematists and physiologists, 402 ; 

 recent botany specialised, has to 

 be taught by physiologists, 403 ; 

 knowledge of plants in the older 

 field botanists, 403 n. 



Science organisation through 

 learned Societies, 405, Linn. Soc., 

 407 sq. ; abhors vacillation, 408 ; 



work on Linnean Journal, 410 sq. ; 

 botanical reviewing, to be reorgan- 

 ised, 410-14 ; charitable funds for 

 science, 414 sq. ; sectionalism, 415 ; 

 medals and recognitions, 415-420, 

 disliked, 418 ; the R. S. medal, 

 416; the overlooking of his father's 

 claims, 418-20; likes botanical 

 laws, 421 ; distrusts Schleiden, 

 422, 424; Nelumbium and a 

 paradox, 422-4 ; paradox, 450 sq. ; 

 housewife philosophy and miracles, 

 427 ; solitude : occupations, value 

 of manual work, 428 and note ; 

 insect pests at Kew ! 429 ; un- 

 necessary questions, 429 ; attach- 

 ment to any home, 431 ; ' Brown, 

 Jones, and Robinson ' tours, 432 ; 

 love for sea and snow, 433 ; to 

 Germany and the Paris Exhibition, 

 1855, 434 sq. 



Darwin correspondence, 436-464 ; 

 distrust of his own generalising 

 powers, 438, and on variation, 439 ; 

 geographical distribution, 438, as 

 an exact science, 439; peculiar 

 floras, no standard of, 438 ; cp. 

 443 ; variability of insular species, 

 439 ; his opposition overrated, 459 

 (see Australian flora, Embryonic 

 development, Forbes' Atlantis 

 theory, Variation on large genera, 

 Geology and progression, High 

 and low types, Insects in islands, 

 Leguminosae and bees, Migration, 

 Plants and Animals, Species, 

 validity of : reduction of, followed 



SBentham and Decaisne : ideas 

 shaken, Southern flora and a 

 lost Southern Continent, Transport, 

 Tropical cooling, Variation under 

 different conditions, Variation, 

 experimental) ; a generaliser as 

 well as systematist, 465, cp. ii. 18, 

 26-31 ; reduction of bad species, 

 i. 466, 479, radicalism in, 473 ; 

 ' swimming in synonymy," 467 ; 

 destructive tendencies really con- 

 structive, 469, 497 ; species and 

 intermediates, 470 ; sweeping re- 

 forms in Fl. N.Z., and Fl. Ind., 471 ; 

 play to amateurs is death to pro- 

 fessional botanists, 473 ; fixity of 

 species and an open mind, 474, 

 507, 508 sq. ; on the ' country 

 parson ' style, 477 sq. ; three 



