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scientific referee, 142 sq. ; knight- 

 hood, 145-151, comparison with 

 his father, 148 ; acceptance by 

 public servants, 149 ; services to 

 India, long unrecognised, 145 sq. ; 

 sensitive and carnivorous plants, 

 152-8; Address at Belfast, Brit. 

 Assoc., 158 ; colour change in 

 animals, 158 ; resents attack on 

 his father, 174 



His life at Kew, 178-81, 191- 

 7; orderly mind, 180, 181 n., 

 and buoyant spirit, 181 ; per- 

 sonal interest in subordinates, 

 180 ; occasional diplomacy, 181 ; 

 love of young folk, 181 sq. ; educa- 

 tion of sons, 182 ; books, with 

 uncut pages, 181 n. ; care of 

 Huxley when ill, 183-6, and their 

 travels, 184 sq., 474; death of 

 Mrs. Hooker, 189 sq. ; astronomy, 

 194 sq. ; labours lightened by 

 appointment of Asst. Director, 

 198, cp. 189 ; visit to Algiers, 198 ; 

 bad health, 198; tonic of public 

 duty, 198; second marriage, 196, 

 202 ; a second Lyell-Turner-Hooker 

 trip, 197, 203, cp. 341 ; death of 

 a young friend's wife, 203 ; the 

 President's baby at Burlington 

 House, 204 ; phases of life, 204 ; 

 visits America, 205-217 ; inde- 

 fatigable at sixty, 206 ; on Arctic 

 plants, 205; on N. American 

 Distribution, 217-21 ; Geographical 

 Distribution, 221-7 ; polar origin 

 of plants, 224, 226 ; International 

 Medical Congress, 224 ; develop- 

 ment at Kew, 228 sq. ; Dublin 

 Brit. Assoc., 232; to Paris, t'6. ; 

 looks forward to retirement, 232 sq., 

 241, 255 ; work at Kew, 1879-85, 

 237-270 ; the intellectual activity 

 of the age, 244 ; to Italy, 251 ; 

 house at Sunningdale, 255-7 ; 

 old friendship, 257 ; death of 

 old friends, the Darwins and 

 Bentham, 258-61 ; Bentham's 

 papers, 261 ; second visit to 

 America prevented, 261 ; friend- 

 ship with Huxley, 262 sq. ; Huxley 

 and the P. R. S., 263 sq. ; the 

 Meteorological Society, 264 ; Bud- 

 dhism, interest in, 264, 328, 333-6, 

 433 ; Baiters' Company, 264 sq. 

 Retirement and pension, 266-70, 



279 ; no testimonials, 267 ; length 

 of service, 269 ; activity in old 

 age, 271 ; the work of his choice, 

 272 ; break with official work on 

 Societies, 273 ; work on Indian 

 Flora, 277-91 ; readiness to admit 

 error, 289; Pachytheca, 291-4; 

 Fossil Botany, 294 sq. ; Huxley's 

 Gentians, 296 sq. ; Darwin's Life, 

 298-307 ; his influence, 308 sq. ; 

 memory after thirty years, 304, 

 432 ; Copley Medal and speech 

 at R. S., 307-9 ; a born muscolo- 

 gist, 308 ; the puppet of evolution, 

 308 ; his one talent, 308 ; nervous- 

 ness in public speaking, i. 30, 309 ; 

 fatigue after public functions, 310 ; 

 his motto, 309 ; Banks' Journal, 

 312-14; Field Clubs, 315-18; an 

 old man's reading, 327 sq., cp. 

 434 ; wild flowers for his garden, 

 339 sq. ; Queen Victoria, 341 ; 

 to Normandy, 341 ; portrait by 

 Herkomer, 342 ; conversations 

 with Gladstone, 344 and note ; 

 friendship and memories : Lefroy, 

 343, Homer, 345, G. Palgrave, ib., 

 Mrs. Busk, ib., Jorge nsen, 346,Hux- 

 ley, 349, 350 sq., 357-9, Tyndall, 

 349s?., Jowett, ib., La Touche, 351 ; 

 historic fur coat, 351 ; microscopic 

 work and eyesight, 352, 466 ; on 

 blindness, 352 ; damage by fire 

 and sale of Wedgwoods, 354 ; 

 constitution like stoneware, 357 ; 

 ironclads and the old ships, 357 ; 

 hope and the young, 358; the 

 Ancient Mariner of the Antarctic, 

 362 ; would like to travel stiU, 363 ; 

 the Kelvin Jubilee, 363 sq. ; his 

 80th birthday, 364; his three 

 most impressive sights, 364 sq. 



Father and son : the Lion Letters, 

 367-76 ; powers of walking, 370 ; 

 learning by heart, 370 ; love for 

 mathematics, 371 ; value of a 

 Journal, 372 ; the Him. Journal 

 useful to his son, 374 ; ' a quiet 

 young man,' 374 ; dulness, the 

 secret of, 375 ; the best schooling 

 for subalterns, 375 



Final botanical work (the Bal- 

 sams and Gazetteer sketch), 377- 

 401 ; revival of early interests, 

 382 ; invents a micrometer, 383 

 n. ; faculties in old age, 386, 



