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NATURE 



[December 21, 191 1 



Stockholm, and Vienna, he enjoyed, in addition, the 

 freedom of praciically every society or corporation 

 devoted to the promotion of natural or technical know- 

 ledge within and beyond the British Empire. Not a 

 few of these bodies have l>estowcd on Hooker stilJ 

 further distinctions. On the recommendation of the 

 Royal Society he received a Royal medal in 1854; by 

 the same society he was awarded the Copley medal, 

 its highest honour, in 1887, and the Darwin medal in 

 1892. From the Society of Arts he received their 

 Albert medal in 1883 ; from the Geographical Society 

 their Founder's medal in 1884; from the Linnean 

 Society their Linnean medal in 1888, a medal struck 

 to celebrate his own eightieth birthday in 1897, and 

 one of the medals struck in 1908 to commemorate- 

 the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the joint 

 communication of Darwin and Wallace on natural 

 selection, in the original presentation of which to tlv 

 society he had played so important a part. The 

 Manchester Philosophical Society awarded him a 

 medal in 1898, and in 1907 he received, in circum- 

 stances of singular dignity, from the Swedish 

 Academy, what he himself has characterised as the 

 crowning honour of his long life — the solitary medal, 

 struck especially for the occasion, to commemorate the 

 two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great 

 Linnaeus. 



Among his academic distinctions were the honorary 

 degree of D.C.L., conferred upon him by the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford, and that of LL.D. from the Universi- 

 ties of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin, and his own 

 aXrna mater, Glasgow. 



His foreign distinctions have included membership 

 of the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star and the 

 Royal Prussian Order " Pour le Mdrite." By his own 

 Government he was made a C.B. in 1869, the year 

 following his presidentship of the British Association ; 

 he was made a K.C.S.L in 1877, towards the close 

 of his presidentship of the Royal Society. He was 

 in 1897 promoted to the grade of G.C.S.I., when, in 

 his eightieth year, the " Flora of British In^ia " was 

 completed ; and in 1907, on his ninetieth birthday, he 

 received the Order of Merit. 



Hale and robust in his venerable old age, the veteran 

 Hooker not only attended the Darwin-Wallace cele- 

 bration organised by the Linnean Society in 1908, 

 addressing the delegates and fellows present in a 

 speech which recounted the part played by himself 

 half a century earlier; he also attended the celebration 

 at Cambridge in 1909 which commemorated the 

 centenary of the birth of his friend Darwin. At work 

 until within a few weeks of his death, and keenly 

 interested in current topics to the last, Hooker passed 

 peacefully away in his sleep, at his residence, 

 The Camp, near Sunningdale, at midnight on 

 Sunday, December 10. As was befitting, an 

 invitation was offered to receive his remains in West- 

 minster Abbey. Hooker had, however, expressed his 

 wish that they should rest in the tomb in which his 

 illustrious father's body was laid. This wish was 

 fulfilled, and on Friday, December 15, he was buried 

 in the family grave in the old churchyard of Kew. 

 The cortege followed the coffin to the church, as was 

 meet, from the house so long occupied by, and so full 

 of memories connected with, his father and himself. 

 At Kew, where so much of what he accomplished was 

 done, he sleeps with his people, and Kew with its 

 old churchyard is now more sacred even than it was 

 to botanical pilgrims. 



.\mong the mourners were the following members 

 of the family, representatives of scientific societies and 

 other institutions, and fellows of the Royal and the 

 Linnean Societies : — 



Lady Hooker (widow), Miss Grace Hooker (daughter), 

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Mr. William Hooker, Dr. and Mr<. Charles H 

 R. H. Hooker. Mr. R. S. Hooker, Sir W. T. 

 Dyer, Miss Thiselton-Dyer, Mr. G. H. This 

 Miss Symonds, Mr. R. Symonds, Mrs. Calverl' 



Mr. R. Woodward, Mr. K. Woodward, jun., i\,< v. ii. 

 Barker, Mr. (i. nnrkcr, Mrs. Crowdcr, Captain A. L. 

 Henslow, Mr. Mall'-son, Mr. Murray, Miss Palgrave, Mr«. 

 Paul Waterhouse, .Miss M. Smith, Sir .Arthur and Lady 

 Riicker, the Hon. Mrs. H. Darwin, Mrs. Prain, Miss 

 V'ounghusband, Mr. A. H. Lyell, Captain F. H. 

 Lycll, Dr. Trail, Rev. A. G. Musgrave ; tlie servants 

 from 'Ihf; Camp. Sunningdal'-. Royal Society : Sir 

 A. Gcikic (prf'si(l*nt), .Sir J. Larmor and Sir J. R. 

 Bradford (secretaries), Lieut. -Colonel A. W. Aicock 

 (council), and Prof. Bavley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Society of Antiquaries : Dr. 

 C. H. Read (president). Linnean Society : Dr. D. H. Scott 

 (president), Dr. B. D. Jackson and Dr. O. Stapf (secre- 

 taries). Geological Society : Prof. W. W. Watts (presi- 

 dent). Prof. J. W. Judd (past-president). Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society : Mr. W. E. Darwin, Lieut. -Colonel 

 H. H. Godwin-Austen. British Science Guild : Sir Normal* 

 .and Lady Lockyer. Entomological Society : Prof. Meldola. 

 British .Medical .Association : Mr. G. A. Peake. Royal 

 Horticultural Society : Sir D. Morris, Mr. J, H. Vcitch. 

 Pharmaceutical Society . Mr. E. M. Holmes. University 

 of Glasgow : Prof. F. O. Bower. Natural History 

 Museum : Mr. E. G. Baker. West Indies : Mr. VV. 

 Fawcett. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Director, 

 with the whole of the permanent staff, and with detach- 

 ments representing the constabulary and the labour depart- 

 ments. Sir G. Darwin, Dr. F". Darwin, Sir A. Church, 

 Prof. S. H. X'incs, Mr. G. C. Druce, Prof. D. Oliver. 

 Prof. F. W. Oliver, Mr. A. Henrv, Dr. A. Giinther, Prof. 

 G. S. Boulger, Mr. J. S. Gamble, Mr. W. B. Hemsley, 

 Mr. J. Britten, Mr. J. R. Drummond. and Dr. F. N. 

 Williams. 



NOTES. 



Wf. are pleaded to be able to report that Dr. R. T^ 

 Glazebrook, the director of the National Physical Labors 

 tory, who has for some time been seriously ill with ente 

 fever, has recently been making good progress towj 

 recovery. A marked improvement has been shown durir 

 the last few days, and it is hoped that he may shortly 

 regarded as convalescent. 



The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Cromer, G.C.B'., and the Hon 

 Lionel Walter Rothschild, have been elected fellows of th 

 Royal Society under the statute which empowers 

 council once in every two years to recommend to the socie 

 for election not more than two persons who in their opinic 

 have rendered conspicuous service to the cause of scienc 

 The following have been elected foreign members of 

 Royal Society : — Dr. Johann Oscar Backlund, of Pulkov 

 Imperial Astronomer of Russia ; Dr. Heinrich Ritter vc 

 Groth, professor of mineralogy in the University- 

 Munich ; Heinrich Kayt-er, professor of physics in 

 University of Bonn ; M. Joseph Achille Le Bel, of ParU 

 the distinguished chemist ; and Klement A. Timiriazel 

 professor of botany in the University of Moscow. 



At a meeting of the executive committee of the Bri 

 Science Guild, held on December 13, it was decided 

 the lecture scheme recenth* proposed should be commenc 

 at the end of January. Sir Edward Brabrook agreed to 

 read the first paper, on the scientific aspects of charitable 

 effort. Prof. Perry will give a paper on problems in 

 technical education in connection with national industries, 

 and Mr. Frederick Verney on agricultural problems. After 

 the reading of papers the meetings will be open for dis- 

 cussion. The meetings will be held in the rooms of the 

 Chemical Society at dates to be announced later. 



The conditions just issued by the War Office for the 

 Military Aeroplane Competition have met with general 



