INDEX 



539 



J. D. H. as to exam, papers, 388 ; 

 a dried plant examination scheme, 

 389; pioneer of practical ele- 

 mentary teaching, 394; his un- 

 finished book of village botany 

 used by Prof. Oliver, 391 ; criti- 

 cisms of MS., 393-8 ; his botanical 

 diagrams, 392; English botanical 

 names, 394 sq., 428 n., 479; 

 travel with, 434-5 ; sends Gala- 

 pagos plants, 436 ; and the 

 ' Origin,' i. 511 ; resists unfair 

 attacks on, 512 sq. ; partial ac- 

 ceptance of, 520 ; at Oxford, 1860, 

 523, 526; death, ii. 60, i. 537; 

 character, ii. 60 sq., cp. 123 ; 

 faculties inherited from, 366 



Letter from : Fair hearing for 

 Darwin, i. 512 sq. 



Letters to : Value of a botanical 

 career, i. 374 ; botany at Oxford, 

 383 ; value of botany in medical 

 education, 388; handbooks and 

 examinations, 389 ; his botanical 

 diagrams, 392 ; criticises his MS., 

 393 bis, 395, 396 ; aid for Linnean 

 Journal, 410 ; Nelumbiaceae, 423, 

 a paradox, 424 ; unnecessary ques- 

 tions, 429; 430; to Paris, 1855, 

 434 ; senseless attacks on Darwin, 

 514 bis ; a Darwinian botany 

 book, 535 



Henslow, L., i. 396 



Heredity, as illustrated by the Hooker 

 family, ii. 308, 366; in literary 

 criticism, 366 



Herkomer, Sir H., R.A., ii. 342 



Hermaphroditism, perpetual, i. 452 



Hermite Island, i. 53, 66; visited, 

 128, 133, 134-8 ; a plant from, ii. 

 358 



Herschel, Sir J., i. 147 n. ; and 

 Humboldt, 186; ii. 56; unfair 

 quotation of, 127 ; Lyell's letters 

 to, 202 ; cameo of, 436 



Heysham, Dr., ii. 429 



Higher and Lower types of plants, i. 

 444, 445 sq., 480 ; conifers, 451, 460, 

 463 ; gymnosperms, 481 ; Australian 

 the highest, 463 ; old world plants 

 have competitive superiority, ib., 

 note, 494 ; relation to ' progressive 

 development,' 507 



Himalaya, early hope of exploring, 

 i. 167 ; objective, 251 ; difficulties, 

 251 sq., 264-72; first expedition, 



274-84 ; second, 289-319 ; captiv- 

 ity, 290, 312 sq. ; obstruction, 290, 

 292-4, 295 sq., overcome, 297 sq. ; 

 the snow-line, 300 ; geography of, 

 revolutionised, 327 sq. 



Mr. Elwes in, ii. 125 ; travellers 

 in, 266; glacial period in, 320 

 sq. ; geological rhyme, 321 ; im- 

 pressiveness of view from Darj eel- 

 ing, 365 



Himalayan Botany, a parallel with 

 the Antarctic, i. 258 ; general 

 features of, ib. 259 ; rhododendrons, 

 q.v. ; map to show distribution, 

 259 ; a lichen as at Cockburn I., 

 55, 305; tardy advance of the 

 flora, 307; hermaphrodite heads 

 of maize, ib. 



ii. 248, 426 ; and the Caucasus, 

 363 ; effect on, of elevation of 

 the chain, 392 



Himalayan Journals, no intention of 

 writing Indian travels, i. 255 ; im- 

 pressions quoted, 281 sq. ; arrest 

 of Campbell, 313 ; work on, 341 ; 

 published, 363 sq. ; dedicated to 

 Darwin, 363 ; a pole-star of his 

 life, ib. ; delight in practical 

 philosophy, 364 ; E.I.C. treatment 

 of, ib. 



Military appreciation of, ii. 183 ; 

 useful to his son, 374, and to a 

 mining prospector, 471 ; position 

 in Geographical Science, 412 ; Dr. 

 Freshfield's appreciation, 452 



Hinds, R. B., i. 438 and note 



Hirst, T. A., i. 539 n. ; in the x Club, 

 i. 539, 541 ; his minute on the 

 Atom, 543, 546; on Magee's 

 sermon, ii. 119 



History, enjoys as a boy, i. 28-29; 

 the burden of modern education, 

 ii. 252, 329 



Hodgson, Brian H., i. 247; friendship, 

 248 sq. ; an evening with, 261 ; 

 description of, 262; unable to 

 join first expedition, 266 ; hopeless 

 about, 272 ; help from, 274, 285, 

 291, during captivity, 318 



Visited, ii. 203 ; travels, 266 ; 

 authority on Buddhism, 433 



Letter from : Old age and 

 friendship, ii. 257 



Letters to : Science workers in 

 1862, ii. 31 ; Bishop Colenso, 57, 

 57-8 ; Wedgwood ware, 78 ; work 



