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INDEX 



at Kew, 247 ; botanical organisa- 

 tion, 249 ; Rome, 253; on his 80th 

 birthday, 257; Buddhism, 264; 

 gout and Providence, 265 ; Kinchin- 

 junga, ascent of, 265 ; his garden, 

 339; birthday, 339 



Hodgson, Mrs., ii. 330 



Letters to : The President's 

 baby, ii. 204 ; Rhododendrons 

 acclimatised, 343 



Hoffman (his servant in India), i. 

 335 



Hofmeister, ii. 420, 421 



Hogan, J. F., ii. 348 n., 486 n. 



Hogg, ii. 88 



Holland, Sir H., aid in Ayr ton 

 affairs, ii. 171 



Holloway College, visits to, ii. 361 



Hombron, i. 186 



Home ties, i. 74 



Honours. See Appendix. 



Hooke, ii. 419 



Hooker, ancestry, i. 7, 8; the Vowells, 

 7 ; connexion with Exeter and 

 Devon, 7 ; direct descent from 

 John Hooker, uncle of ' the 

 Judicious ' Richard, 7 sq. ; Puritan 

 trend of, 8, 19 ; offshoots, American 

 and Nonconformist, 8 ; J. D. H.'s 

 grandfather migrates to Norwich 

 and marries Lydia Vincent, 8 ; 

 the Norfolk connexion strengthened 

 by W. J. Hooker through Turners 

 and Pagets, 9, 10 ; family, 18, 20 ; 

 cousins, 17, 18, 19 



Hooker, Ayerst, ii. 323 n. 



Letters to : Thomas Hooker and 

 American democracy, ii. 323 ; 

 Prussian arrogance, 325 ; opening 

 of Kiel Canal, ib. ; Mr. Gladstone, 

 344 ; young lives : Huxley and 

 the Atom, 358 ; death of Huxley, 

 359; the Wedgwood Exhibition, 

 ib. ; is the Ancient Mariner of the 

 Antarctic, 362 ; Brit. Assoc, at 

 Ipswich, ib. 



Hooker, Brian Harvey Hodgson, ii. 

 182 ; his daughter, 437 



Hooker, Charles Paget, Himalayan 

 picture, i. 287 ; ii. 89, 182 ; visits 

 to, 469, 472 



Hooker, Elizabeth (m. Dr. Evans, 

 who afterwards took the name of 

 Lombe, q.v.), i. 18, 20, 21, 154; 

 pony, 170 ; friend of Miss Henslow, 

 291 sq ; ii. 365, 430 



Letters to : Music, i. 153 bis • 

 his dog ' Skye,' 160 ; Ross' ' Voyage ' 

 admired in India, 244 ; his home 

 with Hodgson, 248 n. ; occupation, 

 260 ; two kinds of rainfall, ib. ; 

 health, ib. ; Sunday at Darjiling, 

 260 sq. 

 Hooker, Mrs. (Frances Henslow, q. v.), 

 literary criticism, i. 396 ; 434 



At Norwich meeting, ii. 120; 

 the gift to Huxley, 184 ; death of, 

 139, 189 ; character and attain- 

 ments, 190-1 



Letter to : ii. 93 n. 

 Hooker, Harriet Anne (Lady Thisel- 

 ton-Dyer), ii. 195, 196 ; marriage, 

 204, 206; Bot. Mag., 243 n. ; visits 

 to, 469, 472 

 Hooker, Hyacinth, Lady. (See also 

 s.v. Symonds) 



Letters to : Himalayan picture, 

 i. 287 n. ; ii. 6, 210, 211 ; marriage, 

 196, 202, 263 

 Hooker, Jago, alias Vowell, i. 7 

 Hooker, John, Chamberlain of Exeter, 



i. 7 

 Hooker, John, M.P. for Exeter, i. 7 

 Hooker, Joseph, Senr., i. 3, 4; 

 moves to Glasgow, 5 ; a botanist, 

 6 ; settles in Norwich, 8 ; old age, 

 154, 156 

 Hooker, ' Fighting Joe,' i. 8 

 Hooker, J. D., Darwin's confidant, 

 i. 2 ; a born muscologist, 3, 5, 

 ii. 308 (see s.v. Mosses and 

 Cryptogams), and puppet of Nat. 

 Selection, 3, ii. 308 ; autobiograph- 

 ical fragment and earliest re- 

 collections, 3 sq. ; his names, 3 ; 

 his first publication, 5, 22 ; early 

 interest in Geographical Distri- 

 bution, 5 ; early ambition to 

 travel, 6, realised, 66, 219 ; in- 

 herited love of botany, 6, and art, 

 9, 16 ; capacity, 16 ; on knowing 

 plants, 12 ; his father's teaching, 

 12-14 ; parallels between his own 

 and his father's work, 14 sq. ; 

 botanical excursions, 13, 23, 30, to 

 Ireland, 32-4, 35 ; childhood and 

 home life, 19-22 



Health, 20; heart trouble, 29, 

 194, 195 ; rheumatic fever, 91, 

 effects of, 246 ; eyesight, 58, 60, 

 night blind, 299; effect of the 

 voyage, 152, 168; hard work and 



