542 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1865, 
Science”?! a memoir of his dear friend, Sir William 
Hooker, in which, after describing his immense labors 
in eee of so many different branches, he 
Says : 
6s Gus survey of what Sir William Hooker did for 
science would be incomplete indeed if it were con- 
fined to his published works, numerous and important 
as they are, and the wise and efficient administration 
through which, in a short space of twenty-four years, 
a queen’s flower and kitchen garden and pleasure 
grounds have been transformed into an imperial bo- 
tanical establishment of unrivaled interest and value. 
Account should be taken of the spirit in which he 
worked, of the researches and explorations he pro- 
moted, of the aid and encouragement he extended to 
his fellow-laborers, especially to young and rising bot- 
anists, and of the means and appliances he gathered 
for their use no less than his own. 
“The single-mindedness with which he gave himself 
to his scientific work, and the conscientiousness with 
which he lived for science while he lived by it, were 
above all praise. Eminently fitted to shine in society 
e never dissipated his time and energies in the 
round of fashionable life, but ever avoided the social 
prominence and worldly distractions which some sed- 
ulously seek. . . . 
“ Nor was there in him the least manifestation of a 
tendency to overshadow the science with his own im- 
portance, or of indifference to its general advance- 
ment. . 
cis the wide circle of botanists in which he has 
long filled so conspicuous a place, . . . it is superflu- 
1 Scientific Papers of Asa Gray, selected by C. 8. Sargent, vol. ii. p- 
321; also in American Journal Science and Arts, 2 ser., xli. p. 1 (1866). 
