1912.) Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ili 
Jackson Hooker, had been made a Knight of Hanover, and in 
1841 had been appointed Director of the Royal Botanical 
Gardens, Kew. In 1855 his son Joseph was appointed Assis- 
tant-Director. and in the same year Hooker, in conjunction 
cutta, published the first volume of a projected Flora Indica. 
This work, however, was on too extended ascale for the pres- 
sure of official duties to allow it to be carried beyond the first 
was reserved for a later date. 
Hooker’s travels did not cease with his appointment as 
assistant to his father, for in 1860 he visited Palestine; in 1871, 
in company with Ball, he explored Morocco and the Great 
Atlas; and in 1877 travelled in the Rocky mountains and 
California, each journey yielding a rich botanical harvest 
of collections and publications that need not be detailed 
ere. 
In 1865 Sir William Hooker died and was succeeded in 
the Directorship of Kew Gardens by his distinguished son, 
who held the post for 20 years. Hooker’s tenure of the 
Directorship was, for part of the period, of considerable diffi- 
culty owing to imperfect appreciation of his position on the 
part of a high Government official, but this difficulty was sur- 
vegetation of the tropical and sub-tropical possessions of the 
British Crown, and the development of important tropical agri- 
pone products, such as cinchona, tea, coffee, rubber an 
es. 
Between 1862 and 1883 appeared the Genera Plantarum, 
written along with Bentham. This work, consisting of three 
arge volumes, gives a systematic account in Latin of all the 
