INDEX 



553 



Languages, i. 22, 28; French, i. 29, 

 ii. 85, 310, 327 ; German, i. 29, his 

 repartee to Darwin, ib. ; Greek, i. 

 22, 28 ; Hindustani, ii. 373, 374 ; 

 Latin, colloquial, ii. 327, 369; 

 value in botany, 369 



Lankester, Sir E. Ray, lectures under 

 Huxley, i. 402 ; on Pachytheca, ii. 

 292 



Lasaulx, A. von, ii. 186 and note 



La Touche, Rev. J. D., on Pachytheca, 

 ii. 292 ; sends books to, 319, 328 ; 

 tutors his sons, 370 



Letters to : Age and its burdens, 

 ii. 272 ; Index Kewensis, 276 ; 

 Indian grasses, confusion, 284 bis ; 

 Pachytheca, 293, 294 ; avoids visit 

 to Paris, 310 ; local scientific 

 gatherings, 315; Field Clubs, 

 315-18 ; Darwin statue at Shrews- 

 bury, 318, 319, 320 ; Indian 

 geology, 320, 321 ; Sir W. L. 

 Buller's pamphlet 322 ; Huxley's 

 powers, 328, 337 ; the School 

 Board and education, 328, 329 bis ; 

 religion in, 338 ; the classics, 330, 

 332 ; women's education, 331 ; 

 Chaldean inscriptions in London, 



333 ; Buddhism and Christianity, 



334 bis, 335 bis ; mathematicians, 

 336 ; biology and religion of 

 reason, ib. ; Johnson and Boswell, 

 337 ; threatened blindness, 351, 

 352 ; W. Scotland, changes and 

 coincidences, 355 sq. ; glacial 

 geology, ib. ; Lord Kelvin as class- 

 mate, 364 and note, and his pupils, 

 364 ; West Indies and sugar, 403, 

 405 



La Touche, T. D., Letter to : Sikkim 



revisited, ii. 470 

 Laugel, Prof., z Club guest, i. 544 

 Laurineae, ii. 247, 267, 277 bis, 279 

 Lavoisier and the sansculottes, ii. 159 

 Law, his botanical work, ii. 394 

 Law of necessary correlation, ii. 123 

 Laws of Nature, unity in, ii. 37 

 Lebanon, Tibetan aspect of, i. 529 ; 



the Cedars, ib., 534 ; botany of, 



528, 534 

 Lecanora miniata, in Cockburn Is. 



and highest Himalayas, i. 305. See 



i. 55 

 Lecomte, contributions to his Flora 



of Indo-China, ii. 378, 401 

 Lecturing, dislike of, ii. 193-4 ; over- 



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come, 199-201 ; at Swansea, 211 ; 

 proposed at Kew and Royal Insti- 

 tution, 376-7 ; scheme of botani- 

 cal, 400 sq.; freedom from, a con- 

 solation, 429 n. 



Lee, Sir Sidney, ii. 452 



Lefroy, Sir J. H., i. 93 ; ii. 343 and 

 note 



Leguminosae, Australian, i. 446, 448 ; 

 of New Zealand and Chile, 445 ; 

 relation to bees, 452 sq. ; embryonic 

 development in, 451 



Leidy, Prof., ii. 208 



Leitgeb, ii. 420 



Lemann, C. M., i. 384 n. ; bis Her- 

 barium, 382, 384 



Le Maout and Decaisne, translated 

 by Mrs. Hooker, ii. 190 



Lenormand, i. 182 



Lepchas, liking for, i. 256, 308, 317, 

 ii. 452 ; their food, i. 257 ; 258 ; de- 

 votion to him, 271 n., 280 ; one of 

 his servants survives to 1909, i. 

 272, illustration, ii. 471 n. ; dying 

 out, 470 



Lepidodendron, ii. 422 



Lepidostrobus, i. 214 



Leschallas, Pige, visit to, near Loch 

 Long, ii. 355 



Lhassa, expedition, without a botan- 

 ist, ii. 400 ; telegram from, i. 275, 

 ii. 457 



Liars, experts, etc., i. 541 



Lichens, Portugal and Antarctica, i. 

 223 ; the same in Cockburn Is. 

 and Tibet, 55, 305 ; on Donkiah, 

 325 



Lillie, ' Buddhism and Christianity,' 

 ii. 328, 334 sq. 



Lindera, ii. 277 



Lindley, John, i. 78 and note; on 

 the circular system, 84; his 

 * Elements,' 132, and the grouping 

 of plants, ib. ; a ' touch ' from 

 255 ; 381 ; his pamphlet on de 

 scriptive botany alone a % good hand 

 book, 389 ; 401 ; wanted on Linn 

 Soc. Council, 408 ; edits Gardeners 

 Chronicle, 412 ; botanical deserts 

 417 ; on Nelumbium, 423 ; one 

 sidedness, 424 



Example of self-support, ii. 74 

 portrait, 178 ; fossil botany, 295 



Lindley, Nathaniel (Lord), i. 434 n. 

 Letter from : A trip to Germany 

 and the Paris Exhibition, i. 434 sq. 



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