352 LIFE AT DOWN. yETAT. 33-45. [1847. 



Sabine,* and Dr. Robinson,! and others. I never enjoyed 

 a day more in my life. I missed having a look at H. 

 Watson.J I suppose you heard that he met Forbes and told 

 him he had a severe article in the Press. I understand that 

 Forbes explained to him that he had no cause to complain, 

 but as the article was printed, he would not withdraw it, but 

 offered it to Forbes for him to append notes to it, which 

 Forbes naturally declined. . . . 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, April 7th, [1847 ?] ' 



MY DEAR HOOKER, I should have written before now, had 

 not been almost continually unwell, and at present I am 

 suffering from four boils and swellings, one of which hardly 

 allows me the use of my right arm, and has stopped all my 

 work, and damped all my spirits. I was much disappointed 

 at missing my trip to Kew, and the more so, as I had forgotten 

 you would be away all this month ; but I had no choice, and 

 was in bed nearly all Friday and Saturday. I congratulate 

 you over your improved prospects about India, but at the 



runpore, and then at Calcutta. He Robinson, of the Armagh Observa- 



was one of the first botanical ex- tory. 



plorers of Kashmir. Falconer's J The late Hewett Cottrell Wat- 

 discoveries of Miocene mammalian son, author of the ' Cybele Britan- 

 remains in the Sewalik Hills, were, nica,' one of a most valuable series 

 at the time, perhaps the greatest of works on the topography and 

 " finds" which had been made. His geographical distribution of the 

 book on the subject, * Fauna An- plants of the British Islands, 

 tiqua Sivalensis, 5 remained un- Sir J. Hooker left England on 

 finished at the time of his death. November n, 1847, for his Hima- 



* The late Sir Edward Sabine, layan and Tibetan journey. The 



formerly President of the Royal expedition was supported by a small 



Society, and author of a long grant from the Treasury, and thus 



series of memoirs on Terrestrial assumed the character of a Govern- 



Magnetism. ment mission. 



j The late Dr. Thomas Romney 



