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of the daily business of life, it was no easy task to prepare and 
arrange the descriptions of nearly three thousand plants, compare 
specimens and figures, and measure their spores.” The publication 
of the Handbook had another effect. Hardwicke, who had published 
much of Cooke’s work, resented the omission to offer him this, 
wide circulation at home and abroad, it became a quarterly. 
Cooke wrote most of it, though he had contributions from the 
majority of the leading cryptogamists. 
In 1875 Cooke published in the International Science Series, 
Fungi: their Nature, Influence, and Uses. This work, whic 
clearly shows his all-round and detailed knowledge, was afterwards 
translated into French; it was almost his only book to prove a com- 
mercial success, something like £300 coming to him in royalties. 
Early in this year he wrote to Berkeley: “It seems an endless 
task to reeoncile the species published by different authorities— 
hence I think it would be a good piece of work if I could publish 
monograph on the Mycetozoa. Cooke procured a Polish dic- 
Great Britain. The following year appeared Clavis Hymeno 
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maintenance of the Indian collections, and to place Cooke’s 
Services at the disposal of the establishment three days a week 
fora period of five years. Besides bei hand to give inf ti 
In respect to the Indian collections, Coo} dartook th -arrange- 
ment of the collection of Thallophytes in the Herbarium, as well as 
the duty of reporting upon questions connected with plant-diseases 
produced by fungoid organisms which were submitted to Kew. 
