xl Annual Address. [February, 1912. 
folio volumes with coloured plates were published, one in 1849 
on the ‘‘ Rhododendrons of Sikkim,’’ the other in 1855 entitled 
tor of the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew, and in 1855 
Hooker the younger was appointed the Assistant Director. and 
in the same year (with Dr. Thomas Thomason of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta) he published the first volume of a 
projected ‘‘ Flora Indica.’’ Hooker’s travels did not cease 
with his appointment, as he subsequently explored Palestine, 
_ Morocco and the rocky mountains and California in the in- 
terest of botanical research. In 1865 Joseph Hooker’s father 
died, and his distinguished son succeeded him in‘the Director- 
ship of Kew Garden and held the post for twenty years. It is 
worthy of notice that from his purely botanical work Hooker 
played a very important part in the development of the theory 
of organic evolution, and this was publicly acknowledged in 
1908 when he received the Darwin-Wallace Medal from the 
Linnean Society. It is not possible to enumerate in the time 
at my disposal all the titles and honours Sir Joseph Hooker 
received from various bodies and societies : I can cnly notice 
a few. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the 
age of 30, and from 1872 to 1877 was President of that body. 
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- of various British and other Universities. Was de- 
corated by the State with the C.B. in 1869, and with the 
K.C.8.I. in 1877, and the G.C.S.I. in 1897, and with the Order 
of Merit in 1907. He also held the Prussian Order “ Pour la 
Mérite ’’ and the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star, while 
he was a member of numerous learned societies in ail parts of 
the globe. From his extremely long and highly-honoured and 
honourable life, his extensive travels, his phenomenal know- 
ledge, the ness variety and erudition of his works. and his 
t : 
As was fitting, sepulture in Westminster Abbey was 
Offered, but, in accordance with his own wishes, his remains 
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arrived in India in 1863, and joined the Society in 1866. He 
