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Journal, vol. ix, p. 271, 1899). The examination of the photo- 
graphs has resulted in the possibility of arranging ten of the 
stars in a series indicating progressive evolution, and the four 
given are sufficiently representative to show the changes indi- 
cated. These are— 
I. 280 Schjellerup=DM 59°:2810 (Magn. 7°8). 
II. 2730s =19 Piscium (Magn. 5°5+). 
Ii 132 rr =U Hydrz (Magn. ss 25)) 
IV. 152 “A = (Magn. 5°5). 
The presence of dright Zines formerly announced is confirmed 
by these photographs, and some of these are identical with 
those observed visually by Prof. Duner at Upsala. Any attempt 
to establish a connection between these stars and those of other 
types must include these bright lines, but as yet no star is 
known intermediate in character between these red stars and 
other groups. Inthe absence of a suitable instrument for de- 
tecting such bodies at the Yerkes Observatory, advantage has 
been taken of an offer from Prof. Pickering to pJiotograph 
suspected objects with the objective prism, and in case this indi- 
cates a body of new constitution, the 40-inch refractor and 
stellar spectrograph will be employed for its detailed examination. 
The photographs extend from A 5150 to A 5850, the carbon 
fluting with maximum about A 563 being specially distinct in 
the spectra of 19 Piscium and U Hydrae. 
_ Bulletin No, 9, in the same number of the Journa/, p. 273, 
contains a plate illustrating a later attempt to find some position 
for these stars of Class III.é4 in the stellar constitutional system. 
The stars compared are— 
I, The Sun (Type II.). 
II. « Geminorum (Type III.). 
III. 132 Schjellerup (Type IV.). 
In the region extending from 4, to about A 5300, the spectra of 
4 Geminorum (Type III.) and 132 Schjellerup (Type IV.) are 
almost identical, while in the region slightly less refrangible 
there are many common lines. Further towards the red the 
spectra become very dissimilar, the strong flutings of carbon 
seen in 132 Schjellerup being entirely wanting in u Geminorum, 
although there area few common features sufficient for com- 
parison. Other photographs in the region HB to Hy show 
similar coincidences. These photographs, it is stated, show 
a decided connection between the two classes of red stars, and 
the observation of more of them may bring out other links in 
their relationship. 
REMINISCENCES OF DARWIN—SIR JOSEPH 
D. HOOKER. 
A STATUE of Charles Darwin by Mr. Hope Pinker, pre- 
sented to the University of Oxford by Prof. Poulton, 
Hope Professor of Zoology, was unveiled at the University 
Museum on the 14th inst., and Sir Joseph D. Hooker delivered 
the following address, which we reprint from the Zzes, upon 
the occasion :— 
The Vice-Chancellor of your University has done me the 
honour of asking me to address you on the occasion of the in- 
stallation of the statue of the great naturalist which now adorns 
your museum, and has expressed his opinion that a few personal 
reminiscences would be more acceptable to you from me than 
an éloge of Mr. Darwin’s researches and discoveries, of which 
latter indeed an excellent reasoned 7ész7é is well known to you 
as the work of your Hope professor of zoology. In accepting 
the task of giving personal reminiscences, I am reminded of the 
fact that narrators of an advanced age are not only proverbially 
oblivious, but are too often the victims of self-deception in re- 
spect of what they think they remember, to which must be 
added that where a dual personification is attempted the nar- 
rator is apt to assume the more prominent position. I have 
thus many snares to avoid, and must hope for a lenient judgment 
‘on what follows. 
EARLY FRIENDSHIP WITH DARWIN. 
The fact of our having commenced our scientific careers under 
very similar conditions favoured the rapid growth of a bond of 
friendship between Mr. Darwin and myself. We both of us, 
immediately after leaving our respective Universities, commenced 
active life as naturalists under the flag of the Royal Navy; he 
asa volunteer eight years before me, who was an official. We 
both sailed round the world, collecting and observing often in 
the same regions, many of them at that time seldom visited and 
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since made accessible to science by his researches—the Cape 
Verde Islands, St. Helena, Rio, the Cape of Good Hope, the 
Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, and New Zea- 
land. On returning to England we both enjoyed the rare 
advantage of the counsel and encouragement of one of the 
greatest leaders in science of the time—Mr., afterwards Sir 
Charles, Lyell. It was through the father of Sir C. 
Lyell, the translator of the ‘* Vita Nuova” of Dante, 
and a friend of my father, that I first heard of Mr. 
Darwin. The “Journal of Researches into the Natural History 
and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of the 
eagle” was then passing through the press, and the proof 
sheets were being submitted to Sir C. Lyell for his information 
and criticisms. These were passed on to Sir Charles’s father, 
himself a naturalist, who was permitted to lend them to me for 
perusal, because I was then preparing to accompany Sir James 
Ross as a naturalist on the Antarctic expedition (1839-43). At 
that particular time I was engaged upon engrossing hospital 
duties, and I slept with the proofs under my pillow that I might 
at once, on awaking, devour their contents. They impressed 
me profoundly, I may say despairingly, with the genius of 
the writer, the variety of his acquirements, the keenness of 
his powers of observation, and the lucidity of his descrip- 
tions. To follow in his footsteps, at however great a 
distance, seemed to be a hopeless aspiration; nevertheless 
they quickened my enthusiasm in the desire to travel and 
observe. A copy of the complete work was a parting gift from 
Mr. Lyell on the eve of my leaving England, and no more in- 
structive and inspiriting work occupied the bookshelf of my 
narrow quarters throughout the voyage. In the interval I had 
been introduced to Mr. Darwin, on a casual meeting in 
Trafalgar-square by a brother officer who had accompanied him 
in the Bzagle to Rio, when I was impressed by his animated 
expression, heavy beetle brow, mellow voice, and delightfully 
frank and cordial greeting to his former shipmate. Shortly 
after the arrival in England of the Antarctic expedition (in 
1843) I received from Mr. Darwin a long letter, warmly con- 
gratulating me on my return to my family and friends, directing 
my attention to the importance of correlating the flora of 
Fuegia with those of the Cordillera and of Europe, and inviting 
me to study and publish the botanical collections which he had 
made in the Galapagos Islands, Patagonia, and Fuegia, 
Visits TO DARWIN AT Down, 
This led to an interchange of views on the subject of geo- 
graphical distribution, followed by an invitation to visit him at 
what he used to call his inaccessible home at Down, which was 
then eight or ten miles distant from the nearest railroad station. 
This I joyfully accepted ; and then commenced that friendship 
which ripened rapidly into feelings of esteem and reverence for 
his life, works, and character that were never clouded for one 
instant during the forty subsequent years of our joint lives. In 
the admirable biography of his father by my friend, Prof. Frank 
Darwin, are recorded the subjects, especially botanical and geo- 
graphical, which were for many years the subjects of conversa- 
tion and correspondence between us. During the many visits to 
Down which followed, he laid before me without reserve, not only 
his vast stores of knowledge, but his mature and immature specu- 
lations and theories, describing how they originated, and dwelling 
on their influence on the progress of his researches. Among these, 
so long ago as 1844, was his sketch of ‘‘ The Origin of Species,” 
which I was the first to see of the few friends to whom he ever 
showed it. At that very early period of my own studies I failed 
to grasp its full significance, @ propos of which I may mention 
that I have been reproached for this by friends who have 
wondered, not only that I did not assimilate it at once, but that 
I did not apply it to my earliest essays on the distribution of 
plants. My friends overlooked the fact that the communication 
was a confidential one, of a hypothesis which its author hoped 
to establish as a tenable theory by an accumulation of facts in 
support of it, which he was engaged in collecting with a view to 
future publication. On the occasions of many other visits it was 
Mr. Darwin’s practice to ask me, shortly after breakfast, to retire 
with him to his study for twenty minutes or so, when he brought 
out a long list of questions to put to me on the botanical subjects 
then engaging his attention. These questions were sometimes 
answered ofthand, others required consideration, and others a 
protracted research in the Herbarium or in the gardens at Kew. 
The answers were written on slips of paper, which were de- 
posited in bags or pockets that hung against the wall within 
