48 Obituary — Robert Davies Roberts. 



In 1855 Hooker was appointed Assistant Director of Kew Gardens, 

 becoming Director on the death of his father in 1865. Meanwhile 

 he made an expedition to Syria and Palestine in 1860, and apart 

 from his special botanical work made observations on the moraines 

 of extinct glaciers on which some of the ancient cedars of Lebanon 

 grow. In later years he explored parts of Morocco and the Great 

 Atlas in company with John Ball, F.R.S., and George Maw (1871), 

 and visited the Ilocky Mountains and California in 1877. In 1885 

 he resigned his Directorship of Kew Gardens. Hooker was elected 

 a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1846, and served as a member 

 of Council during the years 1852-6 and 1860-2. To that Society 

 he contributed several papers on fossil plants. He became F.R.S. in 

 1847, and was President of the Koyal Society and ex officio a Trustee 

 of the British Museum from 1873 to 1878. In recognition of his 

 distinguished services he received a Iloyal Medal in 1854, the Copley 

 Medal in 1887, and the Darwin Medal in 1892. He was President 

 of the British Association at the Norwich meeting in 1868. Hooker 

 married (1) the daughter of the Eev. J. S. Henslow, and (2) the 

 daughter of the Bev. W. S. Symonds (Bector of Pendock) and widow 

 of Sir W. Jardine (7th Baronet). 



After his retirement from Kew he continued to labour diligently 

 at work connected with his favourite studies. He gave much time 

 to the great Index KPAoensis, which was prepared under his direction 

 by Dr. B. Daydon Jackson ; and he edited, with life of the author 

 (1906), the Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, which was kept during 

 Captain Cook's first voyage. 



Sir Joseph Hooker was buried in the old churchyard at Kew on 

 December 15. H. B. W. 



ROBERT DAVIES ROBERTS, M.A., D.Sc, J. P., F.G.S. 

 Born 1851. Died November 14, 1911. 



AVe regret to record the death of Dr. B. D. Boberts, who was 

 Begistrar of the Board for the Extension of University Teaching in 

 the University of London. He was born at Aberystwith, educated at 

 University College, London, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he 

 took a high position in Natural Sciences, geology at the time claiming 

 his chief attention. He was University Lecturer in Geology in 

 1884, and in 1893 published Aii Introduction to Modern Geology. 

 During later years his time was given to more general educational 

 Avork and administration. He was High Sheriff of Cardiganshire 

 in 1902-3. 



HVCISCELL^^nSTEOTTS- 



Flint Implements. — The Horning Post of December 26, 1911, 

 devotes a column to "Flint Implements", "The Flint Collector", 

 "Flints which are not genuine", and "The means by which to 

 distinguish genuine implements from false ones". We fear so long as 

 a clever and dislionest ' ilint-knapper ' lives and makes good forgeries 

 there will always be found simple folks to buy them. 



