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Indian flora, and for a very interesting book, The Himalayan Journals. 

 He became Assistant-Director at Kew in 1855, and Director ten 

 years later on the death of his father Sir William. Elected F.R.S. 

 at the early age of thirty, he received the Royal, Copley and Darwin 

 Medals, and became President in 1873. But notwithstanding his 

 many duties, he still found time for scientific travel, for in 1860 

 he visited Palestine, in 1871 journeyed through Morocco to the 

 crest of the Great Atlas, and in 1877 went to the United States. 

 His memory will always be inseparable from that of Charles Darwin, 

 whom he stimulated and aided in writing the Origin of Species, 

 of which book he was a stalwart champion. Vigorous and indefatig- 

 able, Hooker wrote many memoirs and books, among which it must 

 suffice to mention his Genera Plantarum and the Flora of British 

 India, on the completion of which he was created G. C.S.I., having 

 been made Knight Commander in 1877 and C.B. in 1869 ; his many 

 other distinctions being crowned, at the age of ninety, by the O.M. 

 On resigning his post at Kew he retired to The Camp, an attractive 

 residence near Sunningdale, but continued his botanical work 

 almost to the end, which came in sleep, Dec. loth, 1911. 



WILLIAM HOPKINS, distinguished for his mathematical knowledge 

 and power of teaching, was born at Kingston, Derbyshire, Feb. and, 

 1793, and brought up as a farmer. But in that calling, after an 

 experience near Bury St. Edmunds, he was not successful, and 

 a love of mathematics attracted him to Cambridge, where he 

 graduated from Peterhouse as seventh wrangler in 1827. Settling 

 there as a private tutor, he met with extraordinary success, for he 

 could state in 1849 that nearly 200 of his pupils had been wranglers, 

 17 of them seniors and 44 in one of the first three places, though 

 he endeavoured to make them lovers of mathematics rather than 

 anxious for its rewards. Attracted to Geology by Sedgwick about 

 1833, he applied mathematical methods to its physical questions, 

 such as the movement of glaciers and the condition of the earth's 

 interior, in acknowledgment of which he received in 1850 the 

 Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society. A man of many 

 interests, of high character, and attractive nature, he died at 

 Cambridge, Oct. I3th, 1866. 



LEONARD HORNER, geologist and educational reformer, was 

 born in Edinburgh, Jan. i7th, 1785, and educated at its University, 

 where he studied chemistry, subsequently extending his scientific 

 knowledge, especially of mineralogy. After becoming a partner 

 in his father's linen factory, he went to London, where he married 

 and acquired many congenial friends, joining the Royal Society 

 in 1813, and becoming President of the Geological Society in 1845 

 and 1860. Though a cautious generalizer, he put forward views 

 about the palaeozoic strata which were subsequently confirmed 

 by Sedgwick and Murchison. Business recalled him to Edinburgh 



