February, 1912.) Annual Address. XXXiX 
this duty, as in No. 1 of our January Proceedings you will find 
an admirable biography which has been contributed by Major 
Gage. I can only to-night bring before you a few main facts 
in the career of this most illustrious man of science. His con- 
nection with this Society was unbroken for more than 60 years. 
Originally elected in 1848 an ‘‘ Honorary Member ’’ as one of 
the most eminent scientific men of the day, this designation 
tinguished botanist, and filled the chair of botany in the 
University of Glasgow in 182. Young Hooker received his 
early education at the High School and later at the University 
of Glasgow, and worked at botany in his father’s herbarium. 
Being at that time destined for the career of a Naval Surgeon, 
he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University 
of Glasgow in 1839 at the age of 22, and qualified for the Naval 
Medical Service. 1 may remind you that at least three of the 
scientifically intellectual giants of the 19th century, and who 
were contemporaries, began their careers in the Naval Medical 
Service. I refer to Darwin, Hooker and Huxley. In the same 
year he was attached as Assistant Surgeon and Naturalist to 
the Government expedition under Sir James Clark Ross for the 
investigation of territorial magnetism in the Antartic. e 
expedition lasted from 1839 to 1843, and, during this time, 
Hooker had the opportunity of visiting the Azores, Madeira, 
Canaries, Ca Verde, St. Paul’s Rocks, Ascension, St. 
Helena, South Trinidad, Auckland and Capbell islands, Ker- 
guelen, Terra del Fuego, the Falklands, Tasmania, New 
Zealand and Australia. As the fruits of this expedition there 
appeared, between 1844 and 1860, the Flora Antartica, the 
lora Novae Zelandiae and the Flora Tasmaniae, the publica- 
tion of these taking so many years owing to the fact that 
shortly after this expedition Hooker became assistant to 
Graham, then Professor of Botany in Edinburgh, and in 1845 
Botanist to the Geological Survey to Great Britain, while a 
more prolonged interruption was caused by Hooker’s expedi- 
tion to India. Sir J. Hooker was in India during 1847 to 1851. 
His travels in India ranged from Calcutta to the Tibetan 
border of the Eastern Himalaya, and from Mirzapur to the 
Khasi Hills and Chittagong. A general account of his Indian 
journeys was published in 1854 under the title of ‘‘ Himalayan 
Journals,’’ and forms a classic of the literature of travel. 
While in Sikkim, Hooker had a full share of adventure, being 
imprisoned, along with his friend Dr. Campbell, by the then 
Raja of Sikkim. More than fifty years afterwards the present 
heir to the Sikkim State visited the one-time captive in his 
English home at Sunningdale. Despite the hardships of im- 
prisonment and an inclement climate, Hooker returned to Eng- 
Jand with an immense collection. Two magnificent descriptive 
