170 EETUEN TO ENGLAND : AND VISIT -TO PAEIS 



It is already October when he reports to Dr. Harvey, who 

 had earlier shared in some of the sorting, a quasi-final descent 

 upon the * Augean stables ' of the Indian and Australian 

 collections, — * stable occupation,' as he calls it next spring 

 when picking out duplicates for his Paris friends, in continuation 

 of the same familiar jest, for in default of proper accommodation 

 these things were housed above the stable at West Park,^ where 

 * Elizabeth's pony makes Jenkins sweetly damp ' (i.e. Colonel 

 Jenkins' Assam collection), and their favourite * little Catty ! 

 Catty ! Meaw ! ' sometimes ' kicked dreadful bobbery among 

 the things,' until, pleasant reminder though she was of Harvey's 

 visit, she was convicted of ' eating hens and chickens without 

 salt, wherefore she is to be expelled the domains. Will you 

 have your old darling ? ' 



By March 1844 the official wheels had revolved, and the 

 sum of £1000 was promised for publishing the Botany of the 

 Antarctic voyage. This money was to be spent upon making 

 500 plates of illustrations, * which there are ample materials 

 for in the Floras of V. D. Land, N. Zealand, Fuegia, and other 

 Antarctic Latitudes.' For his support whilst he was working 

 at the book. Sir William would have liked him to continue 

 receiving the double pay of £250 a year which had been allowed 

 on the expedition ; Joseph himself, who did not even wish 

 to be passed for full surgeon and draw the higher pay attached 

 to a rank in which he never meant to serve, was content to 

 ask for the ordinary pay of assistant surgeon, £118. This 

 was more than granted, with an appointment to one of the 

 Queen's yachts, without duty ; the pay was about £136, 10s., 

 without living allowance. Through Lord Minto, however, 

 who was warmly interested as having been First Lord of the 

 Admiralty when the Expedition was sent out. Sir William urged 

 the precedent of the allowance to Kobert Brown ; there were 

 further precedents in the case of Naval surveyors who received 

 a small allowance for living on shore while they worked out 

 their results. Thus the pay finally allowed was raised to 

 £200 a year. 



1 West Park was Sir William Hooker's house, until in 1852 he was given 

 an official residence in the Gardens. 



