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INDEX 



Vincent, George, i. 8 and note; ar- 

 tistic heritage, 9 ; picture, ii. 341, 

 435 



Vincent, Lydia, grandmother of 

 J. D. H., i. 8 



Vivisection, ii. 142 and note 



Von Mohl, ii. 419, 420 



Vowell, original stock of the Hookers, 

 i. 7 



WAHL, Dr. C. G. de, i. 17, 18; ii. 



86 



Walking, feats in, i. 27, ii. 370 ; and 

 his father's health, 159 



Wallace, A. R., i. 354 n. ; disclaims 

 priority, 499 n. 



On proclaiming opinions, ii. 54; 

 an extensionist, 100 ; evolution of 

 man, 124, and Huxley's criticism, 

 130 and note ; long permanence of 

 present continents and oceans, 

 224 ; his spiritualism, 244 ; work 

 on Australian flora, ib. ; the Dar- 

 win-Wallace paper, 300 sq. ; as 

 geographer, 412 



Letters to : His autobiography, 

 ii. 459 ; Bates' ' Amazon' : muta- 

 tions : work on the Balsams : 

 Darwin's consolation for old age, 

 ib. 



Wallace Collection, includes pictures 

 from Dawson Turner's collection, 

 i. 4, ii. 435 



Wallanchoon, i. 276 ; temple, 282 



Wallich, N., i. 221 and note, 235, 

 255 ; offers help towards Indian 

 Flora, 339 ; collections distributed, 

 361, a set for Kew, ib., and Calcutta, 

 ib., and French Academy, 419; 

 species-making, 468 ; synonymy, 

 473 



Herbarium, ii. 17, distributed, 

 280; 378, 383, 385, 386, 395 



Letter to : Support needed for 

 Flora Indica, i. 339 



Ward, N. B., i. 47 n. ; 212; his 

 botanical cases, i. 47, 338, ii. 8 



Warming, Prof., and Ecology, ii. 

 425 



Washington, Rear-Admiral, i. 348 

 and note, 528, 530 



Watch, his father's gift, i. 46 and 

 note ; in Sikkim, 263 ; another, a 

 legacy from Brown, ib. 



Waterhouse, G. E., i. 462 and note 



Watson, H. C., work consulted, 



ii. 236 n. 



Watts, W. W., i. 214 bis 

 Waugh, Sir A. S., i. 252 and note 

 Wealth, the real source of, ii. 96 

 Webb, P. B., i. 185 and note 

 Webb and Berthelot, i. 67, 87 

 Webster, surgeon of the Chanticleer, 



i. 83, 133, and note 

 Weddell, Hugh A., i. 362, 458 

 Weddell, James, i. 47 and note, 51, 



61 ; his ship, 116, 127, 140 

 Wedderburn, Sir W., ii. 402 

 Wedgwood ware, and medallions, ii. 

 77-9, 178, 267; and Mr. Glad- 

 stone, 79, 133 ; the Nelumbium 

 pattern and Dr. Darwin, 353 sq. ; 

 set purchased by W. E. Darwin, 

 354; Exhibitions, 359; 436; 

 medallions, 359 ; craftsmanship, 

 ib. ; genius of, how best shown, 

 436 ; as wedding presents, 436 ; 

 historical value of, ib. cameos of 

 Herschel, 436 sq., and of Linnaeus 

 and his circle, 437, and of Swedish 

 sovereigns, ib. 

 Wellington, on getting 10,000 men 



out of Hyde Park, 375 

 Welwitsch, Dr., ii. 422 

 Welwitschia mirabilis, ii. 18, 23-6 ; 

 Hooker's ' Barnacles,' 24 ; 244, 

 422 

 West, Sir Algernon, ii. 166, 168-9 ; on 



Hooker and Ayrton, 177 

 West Indies, economic botany in, 



ii. 5. See also Jamaica 

 Weston -super-Mare, ii. 444 

 Wharton, Admiral, ii. 312, 458 

 Whately, Archbp., review of the 



' Origin,' i. 512, 515, 516 

 Wheatstone, Sir Charles, i. 239 and 



note 

 Whewell, W., i. 478 .; his style, i. 



478 



White, Gilbert, of Selborne, ii. 456 

 Whitworth, Sir J., liberality, ii. 136 



and note 

 Wickham, H. A., ii. 6 



Letter from, on rubber industry, 

 ft, 



Wight, R., i. 367 and note ; collec- 

 tions, ii. 9, 16; Herbarium, ii. 12, 

 16, 394 



Wilkes, Lieut. C., i. 51 and note, 52 

 Williams, Geol. Survey, India, i. 237 ; 

 death, 288 n. 



