312 KETIEEMENT, TO 1897 : DARWINIANA, ETC, 



To the Same 



Dec. 2, 1894. 



My dear old Boy, — The award of the Copley and Darwin 

 medals 1 gave me complete satisfaction and supreme pleasure ; 

 and as for your speech at the dinner, it made me glow all 

 over. I should like to have been there, but bronchitis 

 dogs my footsteps in the night air, and between ourselves 

 I fear I am in for it for the winter, I hope in a very mild 

 form. 



Dyer tells me that your address at the Nature banquet 

 was exceedingly good in substance and manner, and ought 

 to be printed for its worth as a warning voice. Do think 

 of it. 



The * Journal of Sir Joseph Banks ' was published in the 

 autumn of 1896. A curious history attached to the book, 

 especially as the preservation of the text was primarily due 

 to Hooker's grandfather, Dawson Turner. When Hawkes- 

 worth 2 first edited * Cook's Voyages,' he made a melange of 

 Banks' and Cook's journals, which were put at his disposal, 

 interspersed with reflections of his own. There was nothing 

 to distinguish his sources, and he only made such selections 

 from Banks as would interest the general public. Cook's own 

 journal had recently been published by Admiral Wharton ; it 

 was time to make clear the real and very distinguished part 

 played in the great adventure by Banks. 



Now while the bulk of Banks' property was left to the 

 Hugessens (his wife's family) his library and herbarium were 

 left to Bobert Brown, the botanist, who was his librarian, 

 with the proviso that on his death they were to go to the 

 British Museum. 



Bobert Brown being unable to write the Life of Banks, 

 suggested that it should be undertaken by another friend 

 of them both, Dawson Turner, to whom the papers were 



1 To Frankland and Huxley respectively. 



2 John Hawkesworth (1715?-73), author, said to have succeeded Johnson 

 as compiler of Parliamentary debates for the Gentleman's Magazine, 1744; 

 edited Swift's Works, 1755; LL.D. Lambeth 1756. His Edgar and Emmeline 

 was produced at Drury Lane 1761. He published an Account of the Voyages 

 undertaken by the Order of His present Majesty for making Discoveries in the 

 Southern Hemisphere in three volumes, 1773. 





