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INDEX 



397, 401, 411 ; discoveries at 

 end of botanical career, 400 ; 

 aid to economic botany, 402-10 ; 

 advises West Indian governors, 

 406-7 ; personally tests W. Indian 

 fruit, 408-9 ; devotion to his 

 father's memory, 148, 382, 410, 

 430, 444, 473, 474 



Position as botanist, 411-28 ; a 

 protagonist of evolution, 427 ; a 

 link between systematic and mor- 

 phological botany, 421-3 ; ahead 

 of his time, 422 ; his Biological 

 Philosophy, 423 sq. ; the greatest 

 exponent of Geographical Distri- 

 bution, 426 ; Japanese tribute to, 

 428 n. ; Linnean Gold Medal, and 

 speech in reply, 429 sq. ; ' More 

 Letters of Charles Darwin,' 382; 

 aids, 430 sq. ; dedicated to him, 

 431 sq. ; his own letters to Darwin, 

 431 ; delights in rereading Dar- 

 win's, ib., formerly blind to their 

 full value, ib. ; Darwin statue at 

 Oxford, speech at unveiling, 432 

 sq. ; general reading, 434, and 

 book catalogues, ib. ; Scott's first 

 voyage, 438 sq. ; work as doctor 

 on Erebus, 439, 457; vivid re- 

 collections of Antarctic scenes, 

 441 sq. ; influenza and visit to 

 Harrogate, 444, 451, and Weston, 

 444 ; his amazing knowledge of 

 the mosses, 446 ; his 85th birthday, 

 448 ; his friends' gift, ib. ; at the 

 Coronation, 448-51 ; his solace, 

 449; visits to BexhiU, 451, and 

 to York Minster on his 86th 

 birthday, ib. ; suffers from eczema, 

 451 ; a curious point in education, 

 454 sq. ; early interests revived, 

 452-9 ; 461 ; a granddaughter 

 comes to live with him, 457 ; 

 health at eighty -nine, 46 ; in 

 statu quo, 462 ; valuables, t&. ; 

 at ninety, his life, 463, and health, 

 466 ; receives Linnaeus Medal and 

 O.M., 464 ; Addresses received, 

 464, 465 ; oldest living F.R.S., 465 ; 

 modesty about his share in the 

 Darwin-Wallace episode, 465 ; 

 O.M. portrait, 466 ; at the Darwin 

 centenary, 466-9 ; aspect of, 468 

 sq. ; Sikkim, changes in, 470 ; 

 his portrait gone, 471 (op. i. 280) ; 

 at Sidmouth : ships not in sight, 



471 ; other visits, 472 ; a ' pilgrim- 

 age ' to him, 472 ; last days, 480 ; 

 memorials at Kew, 480, and West- 

 minster, 481 ; plants on the former, 

 481 



Hooker, Joseph Symonds, Himalayan 

 picture, i. 287 n. ; letter from (on 

 rubber), ii. 6 ; early episode, 204 ; 

 education, 327, 369; the Lion 

 Letters, 367-76; on a plan for 

 retirement, 470 



Hooker, Lady (Maria Turner), i. 

 3, 4 ; marriage, 10 ; influence on 

 her son, 15-16, 21 ; touches up 

 copies of his letters, 28, 65 ; 144 ; on 

 J. D. H.'s good sense, 166, and 

 capacity for warming to his work, 

 189 ; opposed to Sunday opening 

 of Kew, 377 



ii. 68 ; illness, 131 ; tour in Nor- 

 mandy, 197 



Letters from : Boyhood of her 

 sons, i. 22, 23, 24; their suc- 

 cesses, 27 ; 142 ; the Edinburgh 

 chair, 193 



Letters to : General reading, i. 

 131 ; collecting in the Falklands, 

 132 ; Fuegia and Hermite Is., 

 134-8 ; Cape Town, 147 sq. ; 

 healthy effect of the Antarctic, 

 152 ; Paris in 1845, 179 sq. ; work 

 with Hodgson, 248 ; Sikkim diffi- 

 culties, 251 sq. ; no danger, 265 ; 

 travels alone, 266 ; unwilling to 

 compromise the people, 294 ; mili- 

 tary service, 321 sq. ; release, 323 ; 

 a light touch, ib. ; on standing 

 godfather, 323 n. ; Rhododendron 

 Book, 326; Calcutta Society, 

 330 



The Greek Church, ii. 87 n. ; 

 Marocco, 92 



Hooker, Maria (Mrs. McGilvray), 

 i. 18, 20; his confidante, 155 



Letters to : Music, i. 153 ; their 

 brother's death, 156 ; Paris botan- 

 ists, 180 sq. 



Hooker, Mary Harriette, i. 18, 20, 

 21, 154 



Hooker, Minnie, death of, ii. 61 sq., 

 63, 64 sq. 



Hooker, Reginald Hawthorn, ii. 193, 

 196, 314 and note, 323, 359 ; mathe- 

 matical faculty inherited, 366 



Hooker, Richard, of Hurst Castle, i. 7 



Hooker, Richajrd (the Judicious), i. 



