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INDEX 



397, 401, 411 ; discoveries at 

 end of botanical career, 400 ; 

 aid to economic botany, 402-10 ; 

 advises West Indian governors, 

 406-7 ; personally tests W. Indian 

 fruit, 408-9 ; devotion to his 

 father's memory, 148, 382, 410, 

 430, 444, 473, 474 



Position as botanist, 411-28 ; a 

 protagonist of evolution, 427 ; a 

 link between systematic and mor- 

 phological botany, 421-3 ; ahead 

 of his time, 422 ; his Biological 

 Philosophy, 423 sq. ; the greatest 

 exponent of Geographical Distri- 

 bution, 426 ; Japanese tribute to, 

 428 n. ; Linnean Gold Medal, and 

 speech in reply, 429 sq. ; ' More 

 Letters of Charles Darwin,' 382; 

 aids, 430 sq. ; dedicated to him, 

 431 sq. ; his own letters to Darwin, 

 431 ; delights in rereading Dar- 

 win's, t'6., formerly blind to their 

 full value, t6. ; Darwin statue at 

 Oxford, speech at unveiling, 432 

 sq. ; general reading, 434, and 

 book catalogues, t'6. ; Scott's first 

 voyage, 438 sq. ; work as doctor 

 on Erebus, 439, 457 ; vivid re- 

 collections of Antarctic scenes, 

 441 sq. ; influenza and visit to 

 Harrogate, 444, 451, and Weston, 

 444 ; his amazing knowledge of 

 the mosses, 446 ; his 85th birthday, 

 448 ; hie friends' gift, t'6. ; at the 

 Coronation, 448-51 ; his solace, 

 449; visits to Bexhill, 451, and 

 to York Minster on his 86th 

 birthday, t'6. ; suffers from eczema, 

 451 ; a curious point in education, 

 454 sq. ; early interests revived, 

 452-9 ; 461 ; a granddaughter 

 conies to live with him, 457 ; 

 health at eighty-nine, 46 ; in 

 statu quo, 462 ; valuables, t'6. ; 

 at ninety, his life, 463, and health, 

 466 ; receives Linnseus Medal and 

 O.M., 464; Addresses received, 

 464, 465 ; oldest living F.R.S., 465 ; 

 modesty about his share in the 

 Darwin-Wallace episode, 465 ; 

 O.M. portrait, 466 ; at the Darwin 

 centenary, 466-9 ; aspect of, 468 

 sq. ; Sikkim, changes in, 470 ; 

 his portrait gone, 471 (op. i. 280) ; 

 at Sidmouth : ships not in sight, 



471 ; other visits, 472 ; a ' pilgrim- 

 age ' to him, 472 ; last days, 480 ; 

 memorials at Kew, 480, and West- 

 minster, 481 ; plants on the former, 

 481 



Hooker, Joseph Symonds, Himalayan 

 picture, i. 287 n. ; letter from (on 

 rubber), ii. 6 ; early episode, 204 ; 

 education, 327, 369; the Lion 

 Letters, 367-76 ; on a plan for 

 retirement, 470 



Hooker, Lady (Maria Turner), i. 

 3, 4 ; marriage, 10 ; influence on 

 her son, 15-16, 21 ; touches up 

 copies of his letters, 28, 65 ; 144 ; on 

 J. D. H.'s good sense, 166, and 

 capacity for warming to his work, 

 189 ; opposed to Sunday opening 

 of Kew, 377 



ii. 68 ; illness, 131 ; tour in Nor- 

 mandy, 197 



Letters from : Boyhood of her 

 sons, i. 22, 23, 24 ; their suc- 

 cesses, 27 ; 142 ; the Edinburgh 

 chair, 193 



Letters to : General reading, i. 

 131 ; collecting in the Falklands, 

 132 ; Fuegia and Hermite Is., 

 134-8 ; Cape Town, 147 sq. ; 

 healthy effect of the Antarctic, 

 152 ; Paris in 1845, 179 sq. ; work 

 with Hodgson, 248 ; Sikkim diffi- 

 culties, 251 sq. ; no danger, 265 ; 

 travels alone, 266 ; unwilling to 

 compromise the people, 294 ; mili- 

 tary service, 321 sq. ; release, 323 ; 

 a light touch, t'6. ; on standing 

 godfather, 323 n. ; Rhododendron 

 Book, 326; Calcutta Society, 

 330 



The Greek Church, ii. 87 n. ; 

 Marocco, 92 



Hooker, Maria (Mrs. McGilvray), 

 i. 18, 20; his confidante, 155 



Letters to : Music, i. 153 ; their 

 brother's death, 156 ; Paris botan- 

 ists, 180 sq. 



Hooker, Mary Harriette, i. 18, 20, 

 21, 154 



Hooker, Minnie, death of, ii. 61 sq., 

 63, 64 sq. 



Hooker, Reginald Hawthorn, ii. 193, 

 196, 314 and note, 323,359; mathe- 

 matical faculty inherited, 366 



Hooker, Richard, of Hurst Castle, i. 7 



Hooker, Richard (the Judicious), i. 



