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INDEX 



Thomson, Sir C. Wyville, ii. 139 and 

 note 



Thomson, Gideon, i. 233 



Thomson, James, distaste for his 

 poetry, i. 29 



Thomson, Sir J. W., see Lord 

 Kelvin 



Thomson, Thomas, i. 31 and note, 

 35 ; early friendship, 156 ; his 

 brother, 212 ; unable to join second 

 Himalayan trip, 291 ; joins for 

 Khasia trip, 319 ; aid to, 321 ; 

 astonished by Sikkim collections, 

 324 ; helps complete them, ib. ; 

 similar views on Himalayan geo- 

 graphy, 328 ; delight in his com- 

 panionship, ib. ; his similar ex- 

 periences, ib. ; his early collections 

 given to India House, 338 ; 

 material for the El. Indica, 355 ; 

 ' Travels,' ib. ; provides for one 

 volume of Fl. Ind., 355; scale of 

 work, ib. ; subsidiary monographs, 

 361 ; illness interferes with work, 

 357, 359 ; proposes indexing Kew 

 Herbarium, 356 ; return to 

 India, 356, 358 ; joint work on 

 * Praecursores ad Fl. Ind.,' 359; 

 reluctance to publish preliminary 

 work, 372 ; pure love of science, 

 376; at Linn. Soc, 407; Ne- 

 lumbium, 423 ; on Berberis, 469 ; 

 ' shaken ' by the ' Origin,' 520 



ii. 3, 9 ; and Fl. Indica, 12, 15, 

 275, 280 ; illness, 15, 16 ; one of 

 his inner circle, 68; aid in 1865, 

 69 ; on Norwich Address, 120 ; 

 descriptions, 247 ; as traveller, 

 266; 286 



Thoresby, Major, i. 263 



Thuillier, Captain, i. 263, 327 



Thurber, Dr., ii. 211 



Thwaites, G. H. K., i. 359 and note, 

 470 and note ; an^early variationist, 

 484f; acceptance of the ' Origin,' 

 519, 520 



Tibet, mission of 1847, i. 216, of 

 1903, telegram from, 275, ii. 457 ; 

 Turner's 'Travels in,' i. 219; 

 early ambition to visit, 219 ; 

 hope deferred, 264 ; seen, 276 ; 

 303 sq. ; like Egyptian desert, 

 304; entered, 289, 298, 299, 300, 

 301 sq. ; lichen common to Antarc- 

 tica, 305 ; a ' round tour ' through, 

 306, 309 sq. 



Tierra del Fuego, i. 53 ; contrasted 

 with Falklands, 81 



Titalya, i. 289 



Tobacco, in St. Helena, ii. 4 ; Natal, 

 5 ; Jamaica, 403, 406 sq. 



Todleben, General, ii. 86 



Tollemache, Mr., x Club guest, i. 

 544 



Tonglo, excursion to, i. 257 ; height 

 worked out, 263, 280 



Torrey, J., i. 399 and note 



Tournefort, ii. 223 



Townshend, Mr., translation of 

 Tacitus, ii. 330 



Transport, aerial, i. 444, 447 ; by ice- 

 bergs, 450 ; seeds and sea, experi- 

 ments, 494 



Travel, early ambitions, i. 6 , realised, 

 66 



Travel, love of camping, i. 303 ; 

 prefers camp or sea life, ii. 80, 89, 

 210 ; less enjoyed at fifty-three in 

 Marocco, 93 n. ; the Rocky Mts. 

 at sixty, 206 ; impossible at eighty, 

 363 ; compared with Darwin and 

 Wallace, 412 ; effect of, 414 



Travelling, cost of, in 1838, i. 32 



Trecul, i. 423, 424 



Trigonocarpon, i. 214, ii. 295 



Trilobite, animal like, from Ker- 

 guelen's Land, i. 122 



Trimen, i. 360 ; ii. 288, 377, 383, 414 



Trinidad (off Brazil), visited, i. 95-6 ; 

 vegetation destroyed, ib. 



Trinidad (W. Indies), cinchona in, ii. 

 3, rubber, 6 



Tristan d'Acunha, i. 83 ; flora, ii. 234 



Tropical cooling, i. 449 sq. , 460 ; and 

 migration, ii. 28 sq. 



Tropical climate not necessarily asso- 

 ciated with huge animals, 322 



Tropical plants and volcanically 

 heated localities in Europe, i. 443, 

 447 



Trotter, Rear-Admiral H. D., i. 37 

 and note (cp. 167), 189 



Tumloong, i. 312 



Tungu, i. 297 bis, 298, 299, 300 



Tunkra-la, i. 301, 302 



Turnbull, Miss, i. 5 



Turner, family and connexions, i. 

 16, 17, 18, 19 



Turner, Dawson, of Yarmouth, i. 4 ; 

 his pictures, 4, 17, 63 ; wide range, 

 7, 16 ; as botanist, 7 ; works, 9, 

 17 n. ; business, 10, and personal 



