MEMOEIALS AT KEW AND WESTMINSTER 481 



On the tablet also five plants are portrayed in Wedgwood, 

 -epresentative of some of Hooker's chief interests : Aristolochia 

 Mannii (Africa), Nepenthes albomarginata (Malay Peninsula), 

 cinchona Calisaya (America), Rhododendron Thomsoni (Asia), 

 Oelmisia vernicosa (New Zealand). 1 



Kew has his personal memory, but Westminster Abbey 

 3nshrines another memorial for the nation. This also is from 

 ;he hand of Mr. Bowcher. It is of marble, a profile medallion 

 in high relief, slightly over life-size, set within an oblong 

 frame — a presentment of him in old age, at once strongly 

 conceived and delicately executed ; in form and expression 

 admirably lifelike, save in the small point that the exigencies 

 Df sculpture demand a greater fulness of beard than he 

 habitually wore. 



It is placed in the north aisle of the nave, where the Abbey 

 honours modern science. Here is the Darwin memorial, 

 erected some thirty years before ; then a group of men famous 

 beyond their own generation ; last the memorial of Hooker 

 himself. But though this group includes other contempor- 

 aries and friends of his, the understanding eye overleaps them, 

 and sees closest in commemoration, as closest in affection, 

 those lifelong fellow-workers. 



1 These were designed by Miss Matilda Smith, already mentioned as suc- 

 cessor to Walter Fitch, the Kew draughtsman. 



