60 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
t be eaten, and I had the Be aaty of looking over his lac 
folio e coloured drawings, and hearing his explanations and 
encomiums. This was my first inspiration to turn my attention 
to ‘toadstools.’ I had never seen them before, or at least with an 
appreciative PY, and. the subject came upon me as a revelation. 
At first I, as so many others have done, restricted my interest 
to their edible eae and had no ambition beyond being able 
to recognize, collect, and devour some half-dozen different kinds 
of ‘toadstools,’ which, in oe ny sabres I had been 
taught to regard. as ‘yank . ce that eventful evening 
I have never abandoned — yitienai€, =e it has been my solace” 
(Grevillea, xix. (1891), p. 68). 
In 1849 w aan Cook editing a Monthly Repository of General 
Literature ; oe the whole of this short-lived periodical 
under various say or ane and combinations of his 
replied to an a pada ment for a master to open the new Trinity 
School at Lambet Bander the old National School system. Here 
he remained ten years, applying himself with is customary 
vigour to his occupation. In addition to his ordinary teaching he 
held evening classes on numerous subjects, and wrote for some of 
the educational journals 
uc 
acquired a ‘aitly good Tnowiedie: He used to visit brokers in 
. wea 
botanical classes under the Science and Art Department, of whic 
he was the first certificated teacher 
In 1 ae an Re oes was “appointed to Trinity Church 
post, and sold his museum for £100 00. In "this year he published 
his first volume, The Seven Sisters of pee a popniar history of 
the principal narcotics of the world; in this he is described as 
* Director of the Metropolitan Sohitdactie Museum.” About this 
time _he was connected with Twini ing’ s Economic Museum at 
others 
employed by Baroness Burdett- Coutts at Holly Lodge, Highgate. 
In 1861 Cooke, on Simmonds’s recommendation, was en aged 
he Commissioners, he arranged and stored the raw proce: 
Hes emained there until rig Museum was abolished in 
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