CHAPTEE XVIII 



THE EETURN FROM INDIA 



THE end of the Indian journey brought up the same problem 

 as had arisen at the end of the Antarctic journey. What was 

 the next step to be, and what arrangements could be made 

 for the publication of the scientific results by the Government 

 who had sent out the expedition ? Government help, he 

 held, might be given to working out research, but not to the 

 endowment of researchers as such. As he puts it to his mother 

 (August 8, 1849) : 



Mr. S. is very clever, but one wants hard-headed, working 

 men now-a-days, and Government pay should be doled out 

 according to the amount of national profit, pleasure or 

 advantage yielded by the science to the Public in general, 

 and not to physiologists in particular, or philosophers. You 

 need not apply this to me. I offer no excuse for myself 

 and court no favour. 



Hooker had always thought it proper to complete in India, 

 apart from the voyage out or home, the three years for which 

 his grants were allowed. That the last year was to be spent 

 in India instead of in Borneo was in every respect good for 

 him save as regards finance. If he was left to pay for his 

 passage home the arrangement did not err on the side of 

 liberality. He still received 300 from the Woods and Forests 

 instead of the 400 for the two preceding years, but lost his 

 full naval pay (200), time of service and naval allowances, 

 together with the free passage home which, under the Borneo 



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