524 



INDEX 



368, 370 ; value of Latin in, 369 ; 

 recent backwardness in India com- 

 pared with Australasia and Africa, 

 399 ; the nodal point in its history, 

 420 



Botany, Fossil, i. 208; the most 

 unreliable of sciences, i. 214, 239, 

 240 ; Brown and others on, ii. 295; 

 Tasmanian tree, i. 172, ii. 455 sq, ; 

 coal plants, i. 210-13, essays on, 

 214, value of, ib., 222; Pachy- 

 theca, i. 214, ii. 294 sq., 412, 422 ; 

 enthusiasm over new discoveries, 

 i. 214 ; Egyptian fossil forest, 

 227 sq. ; coal plants in India, 

 239; relation between Australian 

 and European, 462 ; high develop- 

 ment in fossil plants and doctrine 

 of progression, 464, 507 



Geographical, s.v. Distribution; 

 early love for, i. 5, 236 n., 263 

 Indian, love of, ii. 399 

 and the Medical Profession, 

 i. 13, ii. 351 ; indirect value of, i. 

 388 ; medical plants, 401 ; modern 

 development, 404 



Microscopic, ii. 279, 280, 466; 

 effect on eyesight, 352, 466; is 

 ahead of his time in England, 422 

 Morphological, ii. 419, 421 sq. 

 Philosophical, a relief from pro- 

 fessional, i. 451 

 Bowcher, F., ii. 480, 481 

 Bower, Prof. F. 0., on Sir W. J. 

 Hooker, i. 11 sq. ; importance of 

 the Tasmanian Essay, 353 ; com- 

 pletion of Indian systematic work, 

 360 ; J. D. H.'s remark on know- 

 ing plants, 403 ; on the Gen. PL, 

 ii. 23 ; on the British Flora, 85 ; 

 Hooker's position as botanist, 

 411-28 

 Bowman, Sir W., in Phil. Club, ii. 



134 n. 



Bowring, Sir John, i. 35 and note 

 Boys' Own Book, i. 24 

 Brabourne, Lord. See Knatchbull- 



Hugessen. 



Brahmaputra, i. 264 

 Brandt, ii. 87 



Braun, Alexander, i. 425 n., 177 ; 

 his ' Rejuvenescence,' 425, 426 ; 

 the 'Individual in Plants,' 426; 

 empty speculation on species, 478 

 Brazil, Emperor of, visits Kew, ii. 

 195 sq. 



Brewster, Sir D., i. 245 



Brewster, Lady, at Oxford, 1860, 



i. 526 



Bridge, a collector, i. 437 

 Brightwen, T., i. 18, 19 



Letter to : i. 323 

 Brightwen, Mrs. (Hannah Turner), i. 



18, 19 



British Association, meetings : 

 Aberdeen, 1859, i. 429 

 Belfast, 1874, ii. 156-8 

 Dublin, 1878, ii. 232 

 Glasgow, 1876, ii. 203 

 Ipswich, 1851, ii. 350; 1895, 



310, 362 



Newcastle, 1838, i. 34 sq. ; 1863, 

 *: ii. 68 

 Norwich, 1868 (Pres.), ii. 108, 



114, 115-21 



Nottingham, 1866, ii. 98, 100-5 

 Oxford, 1847, i. 219; 1860, i. 

 521-7, ii. 50, 302^t ; 1894, ii. 

 311 



Toronto, 1884, ii. 261 

 York, 1881, ii. 221 sq. 

 Ladies' attendance, i. 34 ; and 

 Antarctic exploration, 49; and 

 Flora Indica, 355 



Presidency (1868), his Address, 

 ii. 108, 114, 115-121, 423 ; hardly 

 suits a purely scientific man, 108 ; 

 burden of Addresses, 232; Vice- 

 Presidency 1884, 261 

 British Museum, a possible post at, 

 i. 351 ; botanical collections and 

 Kew, 378-82 



Brodie, Sir B., i. 523 and note 

 Bromus, ii. 287 sq. 

 Brongniart, i. 181 ; fossil botany, ii. 



295 



Brougham, Lord, i. 174 

 Broun, J. A., ii. 138 

 Brown, Robert, i. 39 n. ; 10 ; approves 

 J. D. H., 39 ; supports claim as 

 Erebus Naturalist, 42 ; leaves him 

 his watch, 46 n. ; a strict botanist, 

 63 ; advice, 63, 64, 65 ; 82 ; com- 

 mends, not his first collection, 64, 

 but his second, 65 ; later notes 

 and drawings, 112 ; aid from, 142 ; 

 not really a hermit, 162 n. ; pre- 

 cedent of, 170 ; and the Fl. Ant., 

 171 ; highest botanical referee, 

 175 ; succession to, 176 ; on A. 

 Braun, 177 ; books for Paris 

 botanists, i. 178 ; appreciation of, 



