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entire manuscript of his own Journal). The following 

 note is curious as indicating his reserve as to publicity in 

 some matters, especially arising from a consciousness of 

 his want of literary power. His perennial generosity 

 and readiness to help others is again very obvious. 



" SOHO SQUARE, June 16, 1810. 



"... The papers containing memoranda of some 

 matters I saw in Iceland you are welcome to use as 

 remembrances. But as I declined to publish them myself, 

 you will easily understand that I had no idea when I 

 put them into your hands of their being printed in my 

 name, or with any kind of reference to me. As far as they 

 may be useful to your own work they are entirely at your 

 service.'' 



Hooker protested that he could not see how to use 

 these notes without saying to whom he was indebted 

 for them. Whereupon Sir Joseph : " I see no objection 

 to your using any part of the information as coming 

 from me, when it is of a nature that renders the 

 disclosure of its source necessary. It will be the more 

 agreeable to me the more it is done in notes, where my 

 name must come forward." 



Botany and Brewing turned out to be occupations 

 incompatible with one another, if great zeal was to be de- 

 voted to either. Hooker was not a good man of business ; 

 his love of botany kept him in thrall. He soon came 

 to have a longing for travel in the tropics. The fascina- 

 tions of plant-collecting seemed higher than those of 

 money-making. As soon as Sir Joseph Banks learnt 

 this inclination, he endeavoured to find for him an 

 opportunity for its indulgence. His other friends, gener- 

 ally, wished him to stay at home, where there was plenty 

 of work to be done in botany without his health being 

 endangered in malarious deserts. 



